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Freeport Journal-Standard from Freeport, Illinois • Page 5

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May Be Victory At Final Dinner Of Chest Campaign The final report dinner of the Community Chest campaign starts at 0:15 this evening at Embury Methodist Church, with hopeful Indications that It may be a victory dinner. If the gonl of $90,135 Is reached, It will be the first campaign to reach the goal by the original date set. The campaign organization began Sept. 7 with the arrival of Kenneth McDowell, campaign adviser. Special gift and corporation solicitation began Sept.

21. Industrial em- ploye solicitation began Oct. 7. The general klckoff for downtown and residential solicitation was Oct. 14, two weeks ago.

Members of the Senior High School faculty lire 100 per cent contributors, It WHS announced today. five more firms posted Red Feathers: Surge Service, Clothing House, K. C. Erlckson Dental Laboratory, General Auto Parts and A. L.

Seeker Plumbing and Heating. Granite City Workers To Build An Addition For Home Of Triplets GRANITE CITY, III. City building workers plan to build, without charge for their work, a one-room addition to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J.

Lux as a nursery for their triplet sons. The arrival of the Lux triplets Sept. 5 overcrowded their 4-room home here. The workers' decision was announced Monday after a Granite City Citizens Committee appeared before the Trl-Clty AFL Central Trades Council. Lux, a 32-year-old electrician, also is the father of an 8-year-old son.

Ike Assures Socialists That Federal Jobs Not Barred To Them WASHINGTON Socialist leader Norman Thomas called at the While House today and said afterward that President Eisenhower told him Socialists should not be excluded from government civil service jobs. Thomas said he was given to understand that the President or some high official would issue a "reasoned statement" on the subject, and that the statement would set out what constitutes a policy making Job in the government. Thomas' White House call was a followup to an exchange of letters he had last June with Scott Me- Leod, security director for State Department. McLeod. replying to an inquiry from Thomas as to his attitude toward employment of Socialists, wrote June 14 that he would never knowingly employ a to fill a pollcymaklng job In the State Department and would use his best efforts to remove any Socialist who might hold such a position.

The six-time Socialist party presidential candidate said Eisenhower had told him he has no doubt of the loyalty of Socialists. FBI Agents Arrest Bad Check Passer Posing As Journalist CHICAGO WV-FBI. agents and police today seized a man accused of posing as a newspaper reporter in passing bad checks worth a total of $1,464 in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota. He Is George Francis Desmond 21, whose mother, Mrs, G. J.

Desmond, lives in Minneapolis. Kline Weatherford. Chicago FBI chief, said Desmond related he passed 14 checks drawn on the Plains Broadcasting Co. and the First National Bank, both of Amarillo, Tex. Weatherford said the checks were made payable to Wes Izzard and were signed with the name Thomas Kritzer.

He identified Izzard and Kritzer as officials of radio station KGNC, Amarillo, and the Amarillo Dally News. Desmond related he once was associated with station KLYN, Amarillo, Weatherford said. Desmond was charged with transporting fraudulently-made securities across state lines. Motorists' Slowdown Going To Football Game Cut Down Accidents SPRINGFIELD, 111, Gov. Klratton says a voluntary slow- clown of motorists going to University of Illinois football games last week resulted in only one minor accident.

He asked motorists to keep up their cooperation and to ride at 60 miles an.hour or less. State Police Supt. Phil M. Brown reported that no accidents have occurred on Route 45 between Champaign and Rantoul since a 45- mile per hour speed limit was put In effect Oct. 1.

In the 26 days prior, there were 11 accidents, one fatal. DuBois Couple Killed, Daughter Is Injured In Auto-Truck Crash NASHVIUjE, HI. WH-A DuBois couple was killed and their 17-year- old daughter critically injured Monday in an auto-truck collision on State Route 127, three miles south of here. Dead are Herman Balm, 51, and his wife, Mary, 47. A daughter, Helen, Is in St.

Mary's Hospital Centralui. Relatives said the couple was en ruute to Nashville where Helen was to entertain guests at a wedding reception. The driver of the truck, C. Harold Holmes of DuQuoui, was injured aUgbtly. I THE WOMKN'S DIVISION was first to pass Its quota In the Freeport Communlly Chest campaign, which will end tonight If other divisions do as well.

Section leaders, reporting to the co-chairmen, Mrs. Val G. Elvcy and Mrs. Harry Buss, arc (left to right): Front row, MM. Richard JIayner, Mrs.

Floyd Walker (team captain, representing Mrs. Charles II. Davis who was out of the city when the picture was taken) and Mrs. P. Kckcrt Jr.

Hack Row, Mrs. Thomaa Green, Mrs. F. L. Brumbach, Mrs.

Edward Stuken- and Mrs. Sol I.nvy. Mrs. Levy was not a section leader but assisted the co-chairmen by setting up the geographical division for all the workers In the residential Rod Slmonson Deaths MRS. WILLIAM If.

ROSIER Mrs. William Harold Rosier, G3, died in her home, 20 S. Johanna Monday night after a brief Illness. The former Vernle M. Mooney was born in Shannon May 20, 1890, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William Mooney. Her marriage to William Harold Rosier took place in November 1908. The family lived here since that time. For several years she had been employed in the retail store o.f the Cook Baking Co.

Survivors include her husband and a daughter, Margaret, at home. A brother. Frank Mooney, lives in Chicago. A sister and two brothers died previously. Funeral service will be held at the Schwarz Funeral Home at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday. The Rev. Carl M. Grahl, pastor of Zlon Reformed Church, will officiate. Interment will be made in Oakland Cemetery.

JAMES NEVENHOVEN James Nevenhoven, 43, a former resident of Freeport, died In his home in Brillion, Monday. News of hla death was received here by his Sister, Mrs. Marie Hill, 51 S. Lewis Ave. Several years ago he was employed here by the Stover Manufacturing and Engine Co.

Survivors include his widow, his mother, Mrs. Emma Adams of Dakota, two sons and a daughter. In addition" to his sister in Preeport, he leaves another sister, Mrs. Claire Hill. Dakota.

Funeral service is being delayed pending word from a son who is serving with the armed forces. ELLA STINE FORRESTON Funeral service for Miss Ella Stine, 81, who died Sunday in a Forreston rest home, will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. In the Forreston Evangelical United Brethren Church, with the Rev. H. R.

Zager, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Adeline Cemetery. Miss Stine's name was incorrectly given as Spine in Monday's Journal-Standard. RAYMOND DEITRICK MOUNT CARROLL Raymond DeitriclC 67, Mount Carroll Township assessor, died Monday noon in Sterling Community Hospital. Mr.

Deltrlck was bprn on April 3, 1886, at Mount Carroll. He is survived by his wife, Mary. Funeral service will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. In Frank Funeral Home, Mount Carroll. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

JAMES MUMMERT MOUNT CARROLL James Mummert, 66, died at 3 a.m. this morning in his home at Argo Fa, southwest of Mount Carroll. Born on Oct. 1, 1887, at Mount Carroll, he was a son of John and Aurllla Mummert. He was married to Mary Stoner on Sept.

5, 1907. He is survived by his wife; and three sisters, Mrs. George Hamilton of Wacker and Mrs. Ernie Madison, who lives in Iowa. The third sister lives In Savanna, Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m.

Saturday in the Frank Funeral Home, Mount Carroll, Burial will be at Argo Fa. CARL W. PIERCE Wayne Pierce. 3, son of Mr. and Mrs.

George Pierce, formerly of Polo, died Sunday morning at 4:20 o'clock at Tucson, Ariz. The Pierce family had moved from Polo to Tucson on Oct. 1, in the interest of the child's health. Carl Pierce was born on Jan. 10, 1050.

He is survived by his parents; two brothers and two sisters, Donald Robert Lee, Shirley and Nancy, all at home; his paternal grandparents, FUNERAL DIRECTORY EICHMEIER FUNERAL HOME 441 Stepuetuon Street Phone Main 517 SCHWARZ FUNEBAL SERVICE 816 South Galena Ave. Phone Main 3030 THURSDAY ROSIER, Mrs. Win. Harold, 2:30 p.m. at the Funeral Home.

WALKER MORTUARY 321 (Vest Main Street Phone Main 81i Mr. and Mrs. Vade Pierce, Tucson; hla maternal grandparents, Mr, and Mrs. Charles W. Myers, Polo; two great-grandmothers, Mrs.

Susie rifle, Polo, and Mrs, George Pierce, Lanark. Funeral service held today at Tucson, with the Rev. Charles Watkins, pastor of the Tucson Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Tucson City Cemetery. U.

S. Envoy Warns Reds To Get Down To Business On Talks PANMUNJOM U. S. Ambassador Arthur Dean warned today that unless the Reds get down to business in planning the Korean peace talks they face the "onus of not having a political conference." He made this statement to reporters after the second day of preliminary talks, in which both clung stubbornly to opposing designs for the conference and even how to plan It. The Communists again demanded at the 2 hour and 22 minute session that nonbelligerent nations be invited to the peace talks and that the question be settled before anything time or is discussed.

Dean Insisted that only those nations whose troops fought in Korea make the peace and urged the Reds to settle on a site and date for the conference. Danish Fishing Vessel Plays Follow The Leader With Red Torpedo Boat COPENHAGEN MV- A Soviet torpedo boat hailed the Danish fishing vessel Villlm In the Baltic Sea off the island of Gotland, touching off a strange chase that obviously bewildered the Russians. The Danish skipper. Oerge Finne, told the story today when he returned to port. When the Soviets hailed his craft, Finne who knows no Russian, assumed he had been captured.

He sent a message home reporting his supposed plight and dutifully followed the Red warship. This went on for several hours. Then Finne noticed the torpedo boat officers had gathered on the vessel's deck and were staring at the tiny fishing craft through their binoculars. Sensing something was wrong, Finne stopped his ship and nothing happened. The Russians sailed on their way, apparently relieved to have gotten rid of their "pursuer." Gen.

Dean Has Visit With Gen. MacArthur; Talk About Korean War NEW YORK WH- Two comrades In arms from the early days of the Korean War were together again. After a chat of an hour, one emerged and told newsmen: "We talked about the war as we would talk it over when he was my old commanding general." In this way, Maj. Gen. William F.

Dean described his visit Monday in the Waldorf-Astoria suite of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Dean, apparently referring to his capture by the Korean Reds, added: "I didn't do too good by him." Dean was freed by the Communists in the recent post-truce exchange of prisoners. When he departed. Dean was carrying a sketch of MacArthur, inscribed: "To Dean with the admiration and affection of his old comrade in arms.

Douglas A MacArthur." Helicopters Are Handy In Artie Bush Flying EDMONTON, Alta. 3 The helicopter, with its ability to hang motionless in mid-air or land in a tiny space, is proving a valuable addition to northern bush plane fleets. Manager Thomas P. Fox of Associated Airways which has three- 'copters based here, says development of their use In the northland has barely started. There now are five commercial helicopters in Alberta on geological, topographical or timber surveys.

Fox says the helicopter will not replace conventional aircraft in the near future, but will make unnecessary many trips by canoe or on foot. With helicopters, geologists car reach areas previously inaccessible. Fox recalls one engineer who accomplished more with a- helicopter and crew in. six weeks last year than three crews could have done in three by ordinary Desperate Parents Hope For Miracle To Save Son, 4 LOUISVILLE, Ky. Wi A desperate father and Bother hoped today that through some miracle a cure would appear for tlie rabies which is killing their little boy.

Near death is Temple (Temple) Lewis III, 4-year-old of Mr. and Mrs. Temple Lewis Jr. "Maybe some doctor i.s working on rabie.s and has something new. We're willing to try practically anything," Lewis told reporters.

Johns Hopkins University told Lewis it could offer him no hope. Doctors generally agree that ra- ies is always fatal Temple was bitten, or by ft rabid dog Sept. 29 at a church playground. The wound was treated by a physician and healed perfectly. The dog was never found.

But last Wednesday, the boy came in from play crying and told his mother, "My jaw hurts." He was taken to a hospital, and three doctors have been on the case since. The parents decided against giving their son the Pasteur treatment after doctors told them the treatment itself can have serious results, including permanent paralysis- "They didn't exactly advise us against it, but the doctor would say something like 'If it were my boy, I We didn't know that the dog was rabid, and only one human in 10 who is bitten by a rabid dog gets rabies," Lewis The Lewises have one other child, Laurie, 9. Russia Criticizes Greece For Granting U. S. Army Right To Use Their Bases MOSCOW (JB Russia has accused Greece of taking measures directly aimed at a new war by granting U.

S. military forces the right to use some Greek air and naval bases. The charge was made in a sharp protest note delivered by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko Monday night to the Greek charge d'affaires, Thomas Ypsllanti. In Washington, the State Department declined comment on the Kremlin note. Six Rescuers Drown Off Scotland's Coast While Families Watch ARBROATH, Scotalnd OR Six lifeboat men, weary from an all- night battle with a gale-tossed sea, drowned early 'today within sight of the lights of their own homes.

Only one crew member survived. Their 35 powered craft had put out Monday night on a fruitless search for a vessel reported in trouble. Friends and relatives who gathered along the harbor wall to greet the returning men watched in horror as a giant wave caught the B'o ton boat and smashed it against rocks only 50 feet from shore. A rocket line fired from shore tangled around the body of the only survivor, Archibald Smith. With its help he pulled himself to safety.

FLOWERS Soften Sorrows Now FREEPORT AND SURROUNDING AREA can hear JIM VAUS 15 Jays beginning NOV. 8 7 30 CONSISTORY AUDITORIUM ri't purl 111. East German Press Silent Over Return Of Ex-Nazi General BERLIN lyrV-The Communist press in East Germany continued today to keep the cloak of mystery around former German Field Marshal Frlcdrich von Paulus, reportedly returned from the Soviet Union where he has been held since his surrender at Stalingrad in February 1943. His release was announced Monday. The official Soviet newspaper Tacgllche Rundschau and the Communist-controlled East German press published a brief announcement this morning that the 63-year old Von Paulus arrived in East Germany "a few days ago" and would take up residence there.

There was no more clue to his future than there has been concerning: his activities since his capture. May Command Army There has been speculation Von Paulus may take up command of East Germany's projected armed forces, which are to be formed out of the Communist People's Police. American officials said they were convinced Von Paulus would be given some important military duties in East Germany in view of the Communist publicity on the fact he was settling in the Soviet zone. Von Paulus 'family In West daughter, brother, and to believe the Communist report of his release, declaring th'ey had had no word from him. He haa no relatives in the East zone.

His wife died in 1949. Remove Small Screws On Abandoned Ice Box, Save Children's Lives CHICAGO Each of 28 children who were smothered in abandoned refrigerators this year died because two small screws held firmly in place, a service expert said today. "You can render virtually any refrigerator harmless by removing 1 the lock stop from the doorsill. In most models this metal part is held by only two screws," said Harry D. Busby, statistician for the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society.

Busby said that 8,000 members of this men i who maintain and repair pledged their help to their communities in making old iceboxes harmless. "But anyone-can do it," he said. "It takes about two minutes, and it doesn't damage the refrigerator or keep it from being put back into service." The service engineers' group has records of 83 child deaths in 49 refrigerator accidents occurring in the United States and Canada since 1945. POPE PIUS XII CHATS WITH BLIND Miss Elken Noone of Philadelphia, who was led by her seeing eye dog. This is believed to be the first time a dog has ever been admitted to the Papal apart- Photo Indian Officers Feel That There Is No Hope Of Resuming Interviews PANMUNJOM GR Indian officers attached to the Korean Repatriation Commission said privately today there appears to be no hope of resuming on a large scale the interviews with anti-Red war prisoners who have refused to go home.

The five-nation commission settled down to an almost "do nothing" only chore the care of 22,176 unrepatriated POWs i in its custody. There was no hint of a crack in the tight deadlock resulting from the Communist demand 101 days ago that violently anti-Corn- munist Korean prisoners be forced to appear before Red interviewers. Names Of Those Losing Driving Licenses Sent To Local Officials SPRINGFIELD, HI. of persons losing driving privileges I will go to their local enforcement officers within three days from now on. i Secretary of State Charles Carpentier announced Monday that I the names of the first 769 persons i suffering license revocation under the strict new driving law were be- ing sent to sheriffs, state's attorneys and local police for the first time.

The law became effective July 1. Notification is intended to prevent persons without privilege from continuing to use highways. the TUESDAY. OCtOBM ff, 1943 Curtiss Candy Farms Wins 49 Awards Curtiss Candy Co. Farms of Cary in McHenry County added to.

its nhow ring record tht past season by having dairy unimaU win 49 championships and idS ribbons in state, national and International competition. Five grand championships won by Curtiss dairy cows In week. The championships, ont In each of the five major dairy'cattle breeds, were won at the Minnesota and Iowa state fairs. Among the attractions for visitors at the farm Is Proud Sally, Illinois champion producer, who continues to milk 100 pounds a day, and Noble Curtiss, sire of 1,400 registered offspring and many thousand grade offspring, more than any Guernsey bull in history. LOANS Low Bonk Rotes SAVE $100-00 ON YOUR FREEZER $100.00 worth of Frozen Foods or $100.00 Off Carload Barkow Freezer APPLIANCE CO.

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