Belvidere Daily Republican from Belvidere, Illinois • Page 8

THE BELVIDERE DAILY REPUBLICAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1947- PACE EIQHT. Deities Gas Dealers ROY BUCK IN POLICE BAFFLED Shopping DAS TILL Ordered To Close Roy E. Roderick, Ex-Belvidere Man, Dies In Woodstock RADIO CAB No "orders'l have been Issued to 24 COURT POLE LIFE SENTENCE FOR SLAYER OF MRS. ASTLING SURVEY GROUP SF0R DE IN SEARCH FOR members of the Gasoline Retailers TAXI PHONE association in Chicago to close mm early weekdays and mil Sun days as recently headlined in Chi CHEMUNG MAN WOODSTOCK, Dec.

5 Roy E. Roderick, who came here from BelvideBe many years ago, died at 8:30 o'clock last evening in the Woodstock hospital. He was born in Belvidere Jan. 4, 1893. In recent years he was 'VRpy about; 30 appeared In pbllce.coQrt af cago- papers, it is slated by Elmer M.

Mack, president of the nsso ternoon to face a charge of assault Ciation. WHEREABOUTS OF ANDREW Mack explains that the basis for 8 OR ENS ON STILL UN employed as a foreman in the typewriter factory at SYCAMORE, Dec. 5 Circuit Judge Harry W. McEwen sen the report was a letter sent to KNOWN JOHN CONLEY FIRST DATE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, IN BELVIDERE COMMUNITY BUILDINO FOUR OTHER MEETINGS SET FOR Tins MONTH SERIES TO DISCUSS ELEMEN OF BELVIDERE AN -UNCLE filling stations suggesting shorter hours but only in case their quo tenced Harry "Babb" Sell, 62, to jaw OF MISSING TAVERN- tas do not last through the month. KEEPER NATURE OF day life in the penitentiary for the slaying of Mrs.

Vivian Astiing West DISAPPEARANCE CAUSES For dealers with sufficient quotas full-time operation will continue. Gambling Probe In Lake County Begins TARY SCHOOL DISTRICT PROPOSAL SCHEDULED IN JANUARY. AUTHORITIES TO FEAR JrRhV'deadly weapon. i ni ure" of the charge is 6uch that Buck, may be bound over 1 arrested in Rockford M'" 1:15 Thursday afternoon after police far 12 hours, started searching for him after, 'h threatened lo kill Ezr Merrill with a shotgun when Merrill arid officer Nferton Hendhckscn went to his, home at; )T15 Garfield avenue In ina Sycamore tavern last August 19 and then attempting suicide w. FOUL PLAY.

Issues Report On A WAUKEGAN, Doc. 5 Atty. Under the sentence Sell will noi be eligible for parole for 20 years. CHICAGO, Dec. 5 Forecasts At three o'clock today author! The first general meeting to S.

Fuqua, assistant state's atto issued by U. S. weather bureau: ties still were in the dark as to Yule Seal Sales discuss the Boone county school survey committee's tentative re When called to testify Wednes the whereabouts of Andrew Sor rney of Lake county from 1937to 1941, has accepted appointment as port will be held in the Commun enson, Chemung tavern owner, An early report on the annual 0JP tae: special prosecutor to probe gam day in his own behalf by his court-appointed attorney, Charles M. Nelson, of Genoa, Sell said "I ity building Saturday. who has been missing since Wed The meeting "will start at 10 nesday morning.

bling in Lake county, and; was ready today to begin calling wit o'clock and all residents of Boone McHenry county Sheriff Fred can't recall" what happened when Lundin's Flowers Tel. 165 nesses before the December grand he shot and killed Mrs. Astiing. Chicago and vicinity Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday, light rain or snow beginning late Somewhat colder tonight. Low tonight 28, high Saturday 37, low Saturday night 34, West to northwest winds around 20, diminishing tonight.

Outlook for Sunday, rain and little change in temperature. Northern Illinois Cloudy tonight and Saturday. Somewhat i county are invited to attend and participate in a discussion of the jury. C. Bau reported by telephone this afternoon that no new development had turned up in the baffl City Judge L.

Eric Carey, of general aspects of the report. He said he had been drinking all day. He was able to reconstruct his movements and conversations aaswerrto" about 1 o'clock Thursday, morning. i'BucIt also ia alleged to have forced a Howard Wal-' xejn, 426vVViest -Madison street, to load! shotgun Into his car door at gVnpoin. and'ib have taken a shot atf Walters-fled from sale of Christmas seals sponsored by 'the Boone County Tuberculosis association is highly gratifying.

Mrs. Lewis Hawkey, president, announced today. Many who received seal allotments have already returned cash payments, Mrs, Hawkey said. She asks that similar prompt action be taken by all who have not yet mailed payments. Zion, first named by Judge Dady The Saturday meeting will be ing disappearance of the tavern to take charge of the investiga- keeper.

up to within a few minutes of the i tion, declined the appointment. Sorenson is an uncle of John followed by four other meetings this month and a series of meetings in January. time when he' pulled the trigger Conley, who with Earl Suhr owns colder tonight. Rain beginning by Under the school survey law on a double barreled shotgun to kill the woman. He claimed he met Mrs.

Astiing "by accident" in the Belvidere Recreation on Buchanan street. Conley, who meetings are required to familiar Saturday night, becoming mixed with snow north half. Low to fofmerly worked in the tavern Electric Irons $10.95 saying in a letter to Judge Dady he could not act as judge and accept the post. Judge Dady then named Fuqua as special prosecutor. Both the sheriff and state's attorney were disqualified by Judge Dady, wbo pointed out they themselves might George and Marion's tavern but said he was unable to remember night 23 to 28.

High Saturday 36 with his uncle, was in Chemung to 40. last night. any subsequent events until he woke up in the hospital later. Southern Illinois Somewhat ize residents of proposed changes in their districts. Following a complete discussion of the.

recommendations of the school survey committee, the committee will prepare a final report which must be filed with the He reported that nothing had or i oaavTi.ement been heard from the missing man State's Atty. Ross E. Millet colder tonight. Rain beginning by Saturday. Low tonight 28 to 32.

at that time and that members of characterized the crime as "a pre become involved In the gambling probe1. High Saturday 43 to 46. meditated murder" and asked for the family, while vary worried nniilnr Hi Prlu Mnrtnr Ml ar Hi Early Mortar Mix a commensurate with the Wisconsin Snow beginning over, most of the state Saturday afternoon or, evening. Colder to state advisory commission by June 1. To Call Elections about his disappearance, were bearing the strain of waiting as well as could be expected.

brutality of the crime. ATTRACTIVE, PR AC TICAL SMALL APPLI-ANCES make the most desirable gifts. Choose from our large selection. Report Eastern Atty. Nelson pleaded for a sen Coal Is Scarce night.

Sorenson has been missing since tence "as lenient as possible," be Iowa r- Colder east and central FARMER'S CO-OP. ELEVATOR After the final report is approved by the state advisory commission, a series of elections will cause Sell was "not a normal, sane person" when he killed Mrs. Ast- portion. Mostly cloudy Saturdaj with snow, beginning Saturday BELVIDERE ing. shortly after he opened his tavern, Andy's Place, just west of Chemung Wednesday morning.

Cashed Check According to Conley, a Che be called in the districts affected Hollembeak afternoon or evening, becoming Judge McEwen said" Sell had committed the crime of murder mung man came into the tavern by the recommendations. The elections must be called within 90 days of approval of the final re-port. Whether or not new school dis mixed with rain in extreme south portion. Low tonight 15 to 20, high Saturday 36 to 40. Sunrise, sunset, 4:19.

Bins of local fuel dealers have ample supplies of coal but shipments from the east continue "thin," a survey disclosed today. While coal consumption has increased in the last four weeks, dealers report it is "about normal" for this time of the year. wj ITl Silvius Electric Co, and must pay the penalty. He then sentenced him for life in an Illinois penitentiary. to write a just after Sorenson arrived there.

The Chemung man was in a hurry to Cash a check and said that Sor tricts as recommended by the sur 210 N. State Phone 858 CHECK vey committee will be organized ifcl ir. i 1 vr.V' checkbook enson had not yet placed his money in the cash register but cashed the check from his purse. will be determined by the outcome MORE RAIN OR WINTERING IN FLORIDA Mr. and Mrs.

E. L. Robertson, of the elections. kV Xlf 'almost every day. 4 Tn addition to 'a Sorenson's wife said he had in its tentative report the sur former well-known local residents ho located in Blbomington some about $700 with him when he left home to open his place of busi vey committee recommended 13 school districts in 'Boone county check for these additional pur- in place of the 51 school districts To send money out of lown ness.

The Chemung man who cashed the check said there was another that exist at present. SNOW HERE BY LATESATURDAY XW-W pay local bills years ago, have gone to Florida to remain until next spring. The Robertsons have requested to have the address of the Belvidere paper changed to 1526 McGregor ooule-vard, Fort Myers, Fla. Two of the proposed districts fl' (3) To have a receipt for money paid would be high school districts; the other 11 would be elementary VV 0 Mve bHl-paying trips districts. man in the tavern drinking a glass of beer while he was there.

Because he was in a hurry, he didn't take particular notice of the man and could not describe him to authorities. When Sorenson's son, Andrew, came to the tavern about 11 -r fc Ii M1BMfv 'Y31 ol casn ajia oeinff ouxtoi ppcjtei, A a ii. t- ji mar it -f4. One high school district would take in approximately the northern half of the county, the other With the temperature holding NEW RADIO STATION BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS ON UlR AT DEKALB above freezing during the night in the northern Illinois steady would' take, in approximately the southern half of the county. If the proposal is adopted, pre rain continued most of the night changing to light snow flurries this forenoon.

oecono ivarionai oanK A J. sent districts 125 and 136 in north Boone would be consolidated. A o'clock he found a half empty glass of beer on the" bar. The son also told Sheriff Bau the building was locked, but the window shades had been rolled up. Moisture from the southwest DeKalb's new radio station, WLBK, went on the air at noon today, operating on 1360 kilocycles with power of 500 watts.

The station is owned by Ted Lanes and Roland Wallem and will be on the air from sunrise to sunset. The dedication program will be given from 1 to 3 p. m. Sunday. new high school district would be storm in the form of and T.

organized in south Boone, where The sherilf reported that the fjelvidere high school at presenl some snow amounted to one and one-quarter inches in Belvidere, as recorded by the official 'weather ears or service t. perience r- co-opera won 4i fnHr h1 tWnrn Ttanlrinoi TTomHUoo fire had not been stirred up and that Sorenson's car was in the driveway with the keys still in the i included -in. district 57. District Retained Among, the elementary school bureau gauge at the city dispos iriiBKEB SI "Sets al plant, Fred Morse reported this ignition. forenoon.

The 1.25 Inches Jriclud districts proposed, tWe committee ed precipitation of the past 48 as" Unaware jthat his father had disappeared, Sorenson, Jr. had washed out the glass of beer Newt hours, Mr. Morse said. recommended that districts 219, 33 and 231 be unchanged. District 219 was organized last July Farmers reported that the ma standing on the bar before the of jor part of the moisture was ab ii sorbed by the soil.

Because of the ficers arri'ed, depriving them oi the opportunity of taking possible WfiZlin. HOME PERMANENT Proftsstonal previous snow cover there was on Available again .7. the world's "most wanted" pen! "Writes dry with wet glides shadow-smooth across paper! Four superb "51" colors. Yours with matching Parker "51" pencil, in handsome gift case, "51" Pen and Pencil Sets $17.50 and $22.50 "51" Pens $12.50 and $15 Lifetime Parker Sets $12.75 Pens $8,75 CORNELL REAM fingerprints from it. ly a minimum of frost in the when eight elementary school districts in Manchester township were consolidated.

"District 33 is the community consolidated district in Poplar Grove township, and district 231 includes former districts in Boone and part of Bonus townships. It lJolice believe Sorenson must ground before the storm arrived and the rain melted what little have disappeared soon after 9 o'clock because a liquor salesman frost was left. As the main center of the told them he had stopped at the tavern at 9:30 and found no one southwest storm was far away was organized last May. 405 S. Stat Watrh Rriuirlnfr in the place.

today, moving into. Quebec, the In a notice released from the Mrs. Sorenson said her husband weather bureau reported this office of the county superintend never before had gone away with morning a second disturbance was em oi scnoois tins week, all re KB out notifying the family. sidents of the county were urged in action, this time in the north west. to attend anyone of the meetings PRICES Adult Mat.

Evening Adm. Tax Total 27e 6c 82o Sic 6c S7c 10c 2c 120 1 t. scheduled for this month. List MeeUngs Latest forecasts by the bureau predict the new storm will cause snow in Iowa, beginning Saturday I HtoifWiiWRtnlt mad airl I HOSPITALS I Children "Any resident of the county is SHOWS 2:00, 7:00. 9:00 afternoon or.

evening, and in Wis Highland (Turn to Page 4) TONIGHT TOMORROW consin over most of that state by Saturday, afternoon or evening, Mrs. Spurgen Eudey, Poplar 2 FEATURES 2 They're round, for easier winding, smoother curLThey're ribbed so your bair won't slip. They're rt usabU, to save you money! Refill Kit, without curUn $1M Regular Kit, fibtr curlert 1" All prvu pita tm Pr' wy-nt Jiew ivm rro- I Tlaaitenal Plastic Curleri are big i te50 ora. curling surface). 1 wttli-ploitic lurlers Jm Grove route 1, was admitted reaching the Chicago area as light Course Will End Thursday.

Ballads and Bullets rain or snow late Saturday. Mrs. Henry 426 Allen I Rain And Snow Here At apron Today street, was dismissed Wednesday Blazing Your Way! For northern Illinois the fore ry. Burnell Barr, seven-year-old i cast predicts ram beginning by Saturday night, becoming mixed A recreation leadership training AMERICA'S NO.1 son of Mr. and Mrs.

Eldon Barr, course for members of grange, 1025 Whitney boulevard, and COWBOY! with snow in the north half. It Parent-Teacher, association. Donna Gritzmacher, 11-year-old will be somewhat colder tonight church, 4-H club and other organi daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin with a probable low of from 23 Gritzmacher, Belvidere route 3, to 28 and a probable high of from zations began Thursday afternoon at Capron and will conclude this Grady Sullivan Dependable GIFTWEAR for Men and Boys GIFTS of Distinction GIFTS that are practical GIFTS of character GIFTS backed by the reputation of America's most reliable makers Suits Overcoats Sports Coats Sport Jackets Sport Shirts Sweaters Dress Shirts Pajamas Dress Robes Neckwear Gloves Shoes Overshoes Socks Underwear Belts Suspenders Hats and Caps Gym Shoes Wool Shirts Billfolds were dismissed today.

36 to 40 Saturday. For southern evening. Major surgery was performed Illinois rain -is expected. Duke Regnier, rural social today for Alex Crawford, 320 In Indiana rain is expected by West Eighth street. Saturday hieht.

mixed with snow worker of the University of Illinois: extension department, is in in the north portion. charge. Average enrollment for Wheat Belt Gets Soaking According to the weather bu iIV.fi) the various sessions through this morning has been 30 persons, in reau. the southwest storm w.ncn PRE-INVENTORY CLEAN-UP moved from Kansas over the up cluding small groups from both McHenry and Winnebago coun MM ties, i (Turn to Page 4) ITtVIEXGElT Gyts; of Sportswear I If-111 "1 4 -Season CO-FEATURE WHAT IS A BANK? We have some odd JACKET light Warm Zelan water- proof 'Zipper front boards and a good sup it r': ply of two-inch lumber A bank it really a department store of financial services. It has checking accounts, savings accounts and safe deposits to offer you.

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