Alton Evening Telegraph from Alton, Illinois • Page 15

MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1953 Chief Says: i Home Owner Can Lessen Possibility, of Break-Ins AH Wood River Urged to Attend ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH Moose Officers To Meet Tuesday EAST ALTON. Police here are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping to continue through the vacation season without a report of a break-in or burglary of a home while the owners were away a holiday. Police Chief Harold Riggins today said not one such Incident has been reported so far this summer, nnd he appealed to all those who are still to go on vacation to help maintain that fine record. Riggins said there are a number of things home owners who plan to vacation during the last month of the season can do to lessen the possibility of a break-in while they! are away. Most important, he said, is to be sure to stop all newspaper and milk deliveries.

When those items accumulate on the doorstep, the chief explained, they give the potential burglar a sure tip that no one will be home to interrupt him in his work, and he can even choose his own working hours. Vacationers should inform their neighbors that they are leaving, Tatman Retire From Olin EAST ALTON Mortland and Fred William L. S. Tatman WOOD RIVER Horace Hoff- 1 man. junior governor, has called a special meeting of the officer of'Moose Lodge for 7 p.

m. Tups- day at Moose Hall The regular meeting for members will be at 8 p. m. and all are requested to have retired from Olin Industries i make a special effort to attend. Mortland has maintenance and Tatman in metallic manufacturing of the arms and ammunition division.

Both are retiring under provisions of the Olin In'dus- t.ries retirement plan. Mortland Mortland, a pipefitter, joined the Wednesday; degree staff practice Thursday and a fisn fry at 8 p.m. Governor Harold Tant is spending this week at Miami, attending the National Convention Club at flranife City WOOD RIVER Members of the Wood River Garden Cluh will meet at Wilson Park. Granite City, Wednesday. Families of members arc invited to attend.

Lunch wilt JUIIICU UH- company in December, 1942. Mr. he erved at 6 P- followed bv and Mrs. Mortland live at 3227 Edgewood Alton. At one time four other members of his family, Mrs.

'ATortland, a daughter, and two sons, all were employed at and when to return, the Kast Allon plant of Olin In- Riggins said. They should also be duslries certain to let the neighbors know that no "moving men" or "television repairmen" are expected. Riggins said there are cases on record where neighbors have watched a TV set or all the furnishings of a house removed, because the movers have told them the home owners have asked for such "service." But the most important thing to remember for those who still have a vacation to look forward to, Riggins said, is to DRIVE CAREFULLY! "It doesn't do much good to take all the precautions at home if, because of a serious accident on the road, they don't come home," the chief declared. "We want everyone to enjoy their vacations, but we also vvarlt them to come back, and in good Society At Church EAST ALTON The Missionary Society of Friendship General Baptist Church will meet at the church at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Hostesses for the evening will be Mrs. Robert McDonald and Mrs, Sherman Orris. Guests are welcome to attend. Formation of a company to manufacture 3,300 tons of tanning extract annually from acacia and eucalyptus bark is announced in Portugal. muse AMERICA'S LARGEST SELLING TOILET TANK BALL Noisy running loilets can waste over 500 of water a day.

The amazing patented Water Master lank ball instantly stops the Bow pi water after each flushing. TSeat hardware EVERYWHERE Mrs. Mortland was employed for a lime in metal- lie manufactur- i g. Elizabeth Fisher, a daughter, in the analytical laboratory. Sons Lester and Robert Mortland are employed in receiving and in photo graph i laboratory re- Tatman pectively.

Tatman, a maintenance machinist, has been with Olin since September, 1942. Mr. Mrs. Tatman reside on a farm at McClusky near Jerseyville. They have three children, two living in Crystal Lake and one in Carrollton.

Suffers Burns EAST ALTON pale Neese, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Neese, 568 Whitelaw was admitted to the hospital at Pittstield Saturday for treatment of burns received while burning out groundhog holes on the farm of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Neese at Griggsvi'lle.

According to report his clothing caught fire and he received first and second degree burns from the waist dqwn. Dale is a 1953 graduate of East" Alton-Wood River Community High School. 251 Meters Installed EAST ALTON A total of 251 water meters have been installed in East Alton homes and business places since May, Water Commissioner Harry L. Kuehnel reported today. jj The work is part of a project to inspect all meters in the village to see that they are in proper working order.

Some meters have been repaired and others replaced with a new unit. An order for 100 more meters has been placed, and it a business meeting. 4 Treated for Minor Injuries At Wood River PAGE FIFTEEN Noel Tells Life as Prisoner Note: Frank Noel. my prosrn is fhat Tress 32 months a prisoner of the in North Korea. Now am fa OT1 In tokyo for medical nnd dental of memory treatment necessitated by captivity.

Noel hat ml In born I I with AP Correspondent Olen Clem- lhc rnad h(1 Koto 'he coldest niRht (hat I was cap- lured. The Taken Prisoner Rerls trapped us Nov. 29, to toH of of the law. and we were taken prisoner he nnd fellow Americans nrxl flay. Nov.

30. The da to is not and endured prisoners of war. -important. It was a Ions limo he- This is the first of (hree articles.) By FRANK NOEL AS TOI.O TO OMCN OT-EMKNTS. a and fore any of us rememberer! I was rirline; in a jeep with .1.

MrLauRhlin of Savannah. Cold of Tampa, TOKYO Life as a prisoner of Fla wnon (hn ambushed us the Chinese Communists was thing of doubt and fear doubt of FAREWELL FOR Mur, center, master of ceremonies for the Band Builders farewell parly for Guy Dukcr congratulates him on his appointment as to director of bands at the University of Illinois. Mrs. Duker hwms proudly at her husband. The Band Builders gave a rocogn.lion gift to both Dukers ounday afternoon at Alton High in the newly redecorated WOOD RIVER Four nersons i home economics photo.

ted for tYi'rinr were treated for minor injuries in the emergency room at Wood River Township Hospital Saturday and Sunday then dismissed. Debbie Griffin of Rt. 1, Edwardsville. received a puncture wound of the right foot when she dropped a board on it that had a nail in it. Glenna 11 of 559 Whitelaw Ave.

lacerated her hand on broken glass at home. Dennis Starkey, 6, of 223 Kings- highway, East Alton, was treated for a lacerated scalp which he received a playmate dropped a hatchet on his head. Noraie Baker, 321 St. Louis Ave. East Alton, lacerated her thumb while slicing bacon and went to the hospital for treatment.

Plan Boat Trip WOOD RIVER The Past President's Parley of. the Women's Auxiliary of American Legion Post 204 will go on a boat trip on the Mississippi River Thursday. Members will meet at the boat Friends Bid Farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Duker new is hoped that they will be enough to finish the project.

As a protest against Portugal's refusal to negotiate plans to quit her possessions in India, the Indian Legation has been withdrawn from Lisbon. For Best Close Work Vision without eye sfrofn SEE US TODAY dock-in St. Louis. The Admiral leaves at 10 a. m.

and will return at 4 p. m. Federation to Meet WOOD RIVER T'ie Federation of Men's Bible Classes of Alton and vicinity will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at Calvary Baptist Church in Alton. The Rev. J.

E. Humerickhouse of Hartford will be the speaker. All men have been invited. Wood River Notes WOOD RIVER Air. a nd Mrs.

Ernest A. Maguire and daughter, Judy, of 276 Seventh St. spent four days -last week with capt. and Mrs. R.

A. Perry and family at East Meadows, N. Y. Mrs. Kathleen Gpllagher of 203 Picker accompanied by Mrs.

Melba Busch and Mrs. Freda Graham of East Alton and Mrs. Dick Erzen of Bethaito were guests Saturday and Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dudley at Elsberry, Mo.

and attended the homecoming there. Mr. and Mrs. Lynwood H. France and daughter of 854 Acton jAve.

returned to their home Sunday after spending a week touring a number of eastern stales. The Rev. and Mrs. Henry Wichman and son, James, of 530 Penning Ave. have returned from two weeks of vacationing in Colorado.

Rev. Wichman returned to his pulpit at St. John Evangelical and Reformed Church Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Manning, 228 Ninth have returned home after vacationing in the Colorado Rockies for two weeks. They made the trip by automobile. Guy Duker, former Alton School District music consultant, and Mrs. Duker, were honor guests at a reception Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock at Alton High School. Host was the Band Builders Association, which presented Mr.

and Mrs. Duker each with a watch and their two sons, John and Paul, with gifts. Clay E. Musgravc, first president of the association, made the, presentations. Approximately 350 guests were present, including school officials, former students, members of the association and others.

Duker has accepted a position as assistant to the director of bands at the University of Illinois. In charge of general arrangements was Mrs. Francis Landiss, John Jay, of New York, was the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. 70WN! 7ht IS HERE NOW! TELEVISION FLOOR )Ut UHF Converters! Open Evenings Till Nine assisted by Mrs. Musgrave, Mrs.

Cecil Andrews Mrs. Edwin Stephenson, Mrs. Jesse Bonnell, and Mrs. Lcnus Kaus, wives of former presidents. Mrs.

Andrews, Mrs. Musgrave, Mrs. Landiss, and Mrs. George Loveless also server at the punch table. Mrs.

Bonnel was in charge of the guest book. Refreshments were served from a table centered with a floral ar rangement of yellow rosebuds and bronze button mums, which was a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Josepl Schroeder. Mr.

and Mrs. Duker will leave Alton this fall. Twins Christened Sunday at Roxana Martin and Kevin Mark Roberts, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roberts of Edwardsville, were christened during the morning "worship service Sunday by the Rev.

Roland E. Folkerts who is home on leave from Fort Smith, Ark. The infants were sponsored by Roberts' sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J.

G. Cuddy of 136 St. Rev. Folkerls is the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs.

Cuddy. A christening dinner was served later at the Cuddy home and among the guests were: Mr. and, Mrs. Charles Folkerts of Troy, parents of the Rev. Folkerts.

Undergoes Surgery Ann Ruskin, daughter of Mrs. John Ruskin, W. Third underwent an emergency appenriec-tis operation Sunday at Wood River Township Hospital. Her condition is satisfactory. Mity Mites Lose To Dusters, 17-11 Whizzers proved they still have power in.

the Roxana Junior Baseball League, when they swamped the league leading Mity Mites Friday evening 17 to'31. Contrary to recent form the Whiz- zcrs did it the hard way, coming from behind in the last half of the game. The leading hitters for the Whizzers were D. Pigg and J. Watkins.

For the Mites Reynolds had two for three. Batteries for the Whizzers were: Burton, Hurst and on a narrow road. We pinned down all night behind a railroad embankment what our captors would do to us; which offered rove, next, and fear that an incautious i or 60 men were killed and about word might he overheard by some! the same number wounded. The fellow prisoners who had brromr Runs the ammunition ran an informer. low.

There is -n strange thing about thought to myself, this all the Communists I have met. is it." They trust, no one--especially their' Three young fellows urre cry- fellow Communists. Somehow, they i ing. whether from fright or fatigue managed to instill (his same feeling of distrust into their prisoners, even though those prisoners had fought bravely side by side before being captured. Soino Turned Informer Some few men turned informers.

do know that order I do not know. when that dread moaning hand-to-hand fighting they immediately quit crying. It seemed to steel them, and they quietly fixed bayonets. A Chinese called out in English, Others, in the constant question-i asking us to surrender. ing by the Communists, said things the Communists did not like.

As a result, lots of us went into the cell in which a man could neither stand nor slretch. One particularly had hole was reserved for prisoners the Reds hated most. When you went into that hole, you stayed for weeks without ever leaving it, oven to go 1o the latrine. You sat and slept in your own filth. In Miij.

McLnughlin asked Ihe men what they wanted to do. "I am willing to stand here and if you want," he said. "You are not going to live forever. There is no ammunition and no help coming." Voted to Surrender The men took five minutes to talk it over. They voted to surrender if the Chinese would promise to leave the wounded to be winter you froze, day and Picked up by Americans later.

The Pile; and for the Mites, nolds, Hill and Barr. Rey- Brush Fli-fi EAST ALTON--Firemen extinguished a brush fire in the 500 block on West St. Louis Saturday afternoon. Fireman Homer McPeak and several volunteers made the run, and only minor damage was reported. Read Telegraph Want Ads Daily! In the second game the Hawks won over the Diamond Duster's 16-8 and gained a tie with the Dusters for second place in the league standing.

Hamilton and Jordon were outstanding for the Hawks, each getting two hits in three tries. Immer had a single and home run to lead the Dusters. Pruett also smacked a four bagger for the losers. Lowe was the winning pitcher; and Pruett the loser. Tonight the Mites will meet the Hawks at 6:30 p.

m. and the Whiz- zers will clash with the Dusters at 8:15 p. m. Target Practice For Police Dept. WOOD RIVER An afternoon of target practice has been scheduled 'or the police department Wednesday, City Manager R.

E. Harbaugh announced today. Five officers wiU practice shooing at. silhouettes and other targets a field away from any populated areas. The event will be one of a ser- es of periodic practice sessions by he police officers.

James Witeller Services Were Conducted Today The Very Rev. Msgr. W. T. Sloan of Ss.

Peter Paul's -hurch conducted funeral services oday at 10 a. m. in Stateif funeral ionic for 39-year-old James whose death was the result of a firearm accident. Interment vas in SI. Patrick's Five brothers, Joseph, Lee, Leonard, Patrick, Robert Witcher, ind a foster brother, Joseph Alter- Tiott served as pallbearers.

liuilding Harry Cranmer of 415 Jefferson Ave. has taken a city building lermil to cover the erection of a -room, brick-veneer dwelling on helly St. night; in summer you sweltered. A little food was thrown in once in a while, and a Chinese guard was on duty at all times. Many of us spent clays, weeks, months, in the hole, simply as punishment for not thinking the way the Communists wanted us to think.

There are still Americans up of them driven insane in prison. I am sure there will be some of them there when the Chinese say repatriation has been finished. But there are other Americans today in Chinese territory. They are the ones who swallowed the Communist line and chose not to come back with the rest of us. Prisoner at Yyoktong I personally spent many dreary months as a prisoner in Pyoktong, North Korea.

It was there that I saw two Russian pilots who had been shot down in fights with American jet planes Russians were flying MIG jets against the Allies all through the Korean War. There were many other Russians engaged in the Korean War. I know seven American airmen- six officers and a were questioned by Russians after Iheir capture. One of them, a lost two teeth when a brutal Russian intelligence officer knocked him down. When I was in Chonchong on a picture-making trip, I saw the Russian headquarters.

These are some of the things I saw and experienced in the long months of captivity. One of the things I have learned Chinese agreed. They were com- balwise veterans and so far as I could determine, they kept their promise. We wrapped the wounded as best we could in sleeping bags and blankets and then surrendered. Most of the next day we were kept standing on a frozen creek beneath a cliff to avoid detection by American planes.

We had started on a living hell. We hiked for months after that. Finally, after about 700 miles of seemingly aimless wandering, our captors took us to prison camp Son III Itoxana SOUTH ROXANA-Lt. and Mrs Louis Kremmer and family have returned from Japan after beinfl stationed there the past year ami are visiting with Mr. and Mrs.

Theo O'Neil. They will later lo Lake Charles. whore Lt Kremmrr will be stationed. Pfc. Vernal Part on who has been on furlough at the home of his parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Parton of Ohio left today for Camp N. C. Parton expects to receive his discharge in October.

Cpl. and Mrs. Donald Poloet have concluded a visit at the home of Mrs. Poleet's mother, Mr. and Mrs.

Nicholas Harvey of the Old Kdwardsville Road, and with hi? relatives in Jcrseyville. Cpl. Polcct was on a 30-day furlough following a tour of duty in Korea. The Polrpfs visited with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Poleet: at Portsmouth, Ohio, pn route and Mrs. Poleet remained until Cpl. Poleet can find an apartment at Camp Le- Jounc. Mrs. Jennie McVcy who has been living with her son nnd daughter- in-law, Mr.

and Mrs. Allen Me- Vey of North Roxana, while her home on Indiana was occupied for the past six months, has moved back into her home. Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Herbert, Me- Vcy, will live with 'her 1 while her husband is stationed in Austria. Planes Move Rails MUROC LAKE, A railroad is being moved so thai planes of tomorrow may be tested today on the sunbaked bed of Muroc Dry Lake.

Relocation of 26 miles of the main line of Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company's track around lake will give the Air Force a 20 mile-Jong natural runway. Tht job is scheduled for completion by October. 5 YP.IU River. There began for all of us a life of starvation, lorture illness and, of course, death foi many. Now I have survived and ant free again.

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