Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 10

Sunday, March 5, 1944. LOCAL DECATUR SUNDAY HERALD AND REVIEW Hurt in Crash Are Improved Mrs. Grace Carson, 153 West North street, and George C. Florey, 74, Casner, remained in St. Mary's hospital last night with serious injuries received at 10:45 p.

m. Friday when cars in which they were passengers crashed head-on during a rainstorm. Brought to St. Mary's hospital in A Moran's ambulance, Mrs. Carson was reported to have received head, nose and leg injuries.

Mr. Florey was suffering from shock and head cuts. The condition of both patients was reported as improved. Deputy sheriffs reported that Fred Wallace, of Casner, was driving the car in which Mr. Florey was a passenger.

He received minor bruises. Mr. Wallace's car collided with one driven by Fred Bailey, of 919 East Cleveland avenue, according to the license numbers, deputies said. Woman Passenger Suffers Knee Injury Mrs. O.

W. Simpson, 1859 East Wood street, was slightly injured on the knee Saturday afternoon when a car in which she was a passenger and driven Pauline Hercrashed with driven by dr Done Donald Edwards, 1977 East Main street, at East Main and Twenty-, first streets. Mrs. Herman reported that she was driving north and did not see the Edwards car approaching. She went into the intersection and her car was struck broadside.

Driver Fails to Hear Police Car Siren A police traffic division car driven by Patrolman Earl Myers, and another driven by Lena Mitchell, 1105 East Clay street, were damaged, but no one was injured, when they crashed at East Wood and Jasper streets at 2:05 p. m. Saturday. Police reports indicated that the police car was going through the red light with siren on when the Mitchell car came from the north, the driver not hearing the siren. Damage to the police car consisted of a bent fender, broken headlight and damage to the cowl.

The front part of the Mitchell car was badly damaged. Lip Cut in Crash With Funeral Cortege John W. Butler, 2544 North Main street, was treated by a physician for a lip injury when his car was struck at North Main and Eldorado streets shortly after noon Saturday while Mr. Butler was driving in a funeral procession. Emil Sultz, 1226 North Lowber street, reported to police that he had the green light and drove into the intersection, not noticing that the funeral procession was proceeding against the red light.

Damage to each car was estimated at $150. Two Are Injured As Car Hits Post Betty Willhite, 23, of 552 West Decatur street, and Milton Taylor, 28. of 325 West North street, were treated in the Decatur and Macon County hospital early Saturday morning for minor injuries received at 11:45 p. m. Friday when a car left the road and struck a post on route 51, two miles north of Forsyth.

Deputy sheriffs who investigated the accident reported the car skidded off the pavement and crashed itno the post, but was driven back to Decatur under its own power. Miss Willhite was treated for a sprained arm and Taylor for a cut on the forehead. Other persons in the car were Miss Pauline Glosser, 21, of 552 West Decatur street, and Seth Thomas, 28, of 325 West North street. Pedestrian Is Hit At Lincoln Square Mrs. Frank Williams, 1103 East Condit street, was taken to St.

Mary's hospital last night after being struck by an auto as she 'was walking on Lincoln Square at 10:15 p. m. The injured woman was reported to be suffering from shock and severe bruises on both legs and body. Police said the driver of the car which struck her was Marion F. Payne, of Washington, Ill.

He told police that Mrs. Williams was knocked to the pavement as she was walking from the bus station island to the Bachrach corner. Red Cross in Pana Plans Nursing Course Pana (Staff) A course in home nursing will be offered under sponsorship of the Pana branch of the Christian County Red Cross chapter if enough interest is shown, it was announced yesterday. The class will be limited to 24, and will begin at 7 p. m.

March 16, with Miss Ina Fittro as instructor. It will meet two hours weekly in the basement of the public library. Disorderly Charge Lawrence Harris, 47, of 605 West Wood street, was a prisoner in the county jail Saturday following his arrest by police on a charge of disorderly conduct. $15 For Disturbance John A. Butler.

36. Danville, arrested on complaint of R. O. Beasley on a charge of disturing the peace. pleaded guilty and was fined $15.20 by Justice Rudolph Lorenz.

NEGRO SOLDIERS HELP AT SANGAMON PLANT Negro soldiers who have Ellis. Above is shown a group for loading in a magazine. Each been training at the Sangamon of the soldiers in a boxcar load- box contains two rounds of 90 ordnance plant for the last two ing boxes of ammunition onto mm high explosive ammuniweeks left Saturday for Camp the fork of a small lift truck tion. Here soldiers are shown load- boxcar. The crates are placed ing.

These crates each contain ing crates bf finished ammuni- on roller conveyors and slide three rounds of 75 mm high extion from a magazine into a into the car outside the build- plosive ammunition. Takes Course At Lake Villa Shirley W. Reynolds, 1405 West King street, district inspector of the state Department of Conservation, has just completed a threeweeks' course at the state's conservation school at Lake Villa, on the banks of Fox lake. The inspector was among 33 conservation officers from as many Illinois counties taking the course at the school which formerly was the palatial home of a Chicago millionaire, taken over by the state last year. The school building.

Mr. Reynolds reports, is surrounded by a 27-acre tract of land. Long Busy Day During the schooling period, he said, none of the district officers left the grounds, except with special permission and then only for brief business trips. The school was run on a strictly military basis, he said, and the men were kept busy from 6:30 a. m.

to 9:45 p. with "lights-out" at 10:30. Hour-long classes in various phases of conservation took up most of the day until 3 p. after which outside duties and field trips filled the time until night. Afterdinner hours were taken up by lectures, motion pictures, study periods and entertainment, he said.

Conservation of wild game, game propagation, fish conservation, soil conservation and the habitats of wild game and wild birds were among the things taught in the course. Faculty From Various Fields University of Illinois professors and other men from Midwest states, as well as state department men. did the teaching. Among the fen conducting the course were State Conservation Director Livingston E. Osborne; Chief Inspector Robert C.

Sparks; Superintendent of Fisheries A. Parr; E. N. Hurley, Jr. of Chicago, who taught public speaking; Dr.

E. Yeager of the Illinois Natural History survey: Dr. Ralph Yeatter, game specialist of the Natural History survey; Joe Davidson, state soil conservationist; W. A. Gresch of the U.

S. Fish and Wild Life service; Chester Leichhardt, chief of game management for the U. S. service, and Harold Titus, outdoor writer for Field and Stream magazine. Pana Soldier Hurt Pana Sammy Vadalabene of Pana, who has been in Infantry basic training in Camp Blanding, for about 13 weeks.

suffered an injured ankle last week while negotiating an obstacle course, and is a patient in the station hospital there. At the time the word was sent here. he had not learned whether the ankle was freautred jor sprained. Negro Troops Back to Ellis Two companies of Negro who have been on temporary duty at Sangamon ordnance plant for the last two weeks left Satur. day after having received training in the packaging and handling of artillery ammunition.

The outfits are the 3117th and 3118th quartermaster service companies from Camp Ellis. Officers said the soldiers in training had profited much by handling the actual ammunition and have performed such duties as the unloading and loading of cars, as well as the boxing of complete rounds. They also learned how the boxed or crated material is warehoused. Maj. Jack B.

Snyder, commanding officer at the plant, said that the plant also had profited -by the activities of these troops during the training period, as the labor shortage as the plant is still acute. He added that although the primary reason for the presence of the troops was for training, the cars which the soldiers loaded were shipped immediately to the fighting fronts. Officials stressed the fact that men are still badly needed at the plant to do such work as the soldiers have been doing for the last two weeks. Lincoln Sergeant Is Missing in Italy Lincoln (Staff) Staff Sgt. Robert Kochendorfer, 23, radio operator in the army air forces, has been missing in action since Jan.

16 in Italy, according to a telegram received Saturday from the War department by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kochendorfer, Lincoln. Sergeant Kochendorfer enlisted in the army in May, 1939. He received his training at Chanute Field and was stationed at Pearl Harbor for two years.

He was transferred to Africa last year and had been stationed in Sardinia since last November. Sergeant Kochendorfer's wife, the former Jane Kern, and sevenmonths-old son are living in Pekin. He also has two sisters, Ruth and Charlotte, both of Lincoln. Lincoln Rector Resigns, Accepts New York Post Lincoln (Staff) Rev. Arthur E.

Bice, rector of Trinity Episcopal church of Lincoln for nearly four years, presented his resignation at a meeting of the church vestry at noon Saturday. He has accepted a call to become rector of the Church of the Ascension in Troy, N. Y. He and his family will move to Troy on March 27 and he will conduct his first services as rector of the new parish on Palm Sunday. Mt.

Zion Youth Months on Midway Midway Island is a fisherman's paradise but it sure is small, Pfc. William Norman Head said upon returning to Decatur after 18 months on the island outpost. Sent to Midway after the famous battle, Private Head arrived on East Island' at Midway in July, 1942. He was a member of a group of marines sent to relieve the garrison which had just survived the Japanese attack. He found the island still bore many signs of the action.

"Midway island actually consists of two islands, Sand Island and East Island, lying about a halfmile apart and connected by navyoperated ferry service," he said. "We were stationed on East Island where I was connected with an anti-aircraft unit. Without Trees "Our island, a mile and a half long by three of a mile wide: was slightly smaller than Sand Island and possessed a disadvantage in that there were no trees or bushes more than three feet high on it. "Sand island had trees, a few cows and chickens the navy brought in and a garden cultivated on soil brought in by the navy. "The fellows stationed with me were a contented lot--that is they didn't holler for extra time off duty because there was no place to.

go. "When we arrived there we had Logan County Draft Contingent Called Lincoln (Staff) The first contingent of Logan county registrants to be called from the draft pool under the new regulations has reported at Chicago for induction into the navy. Included in the group were: Charles Harraden. Lincoln. Jack McKinley, Lincoln.

Walter Pollock. Lincoln. Wendell Powell. Atlanta. Merlin Crawford.

Lincoln. Wayne Copeland. Mt. Pulaski. Walter Tabb, Atlanta.

Ray Peterson, Elkhart. Dieterich Man Receives Discharge From Army Effingham (Staff) Corp. Erban Hartke, who has been in the U. S. army medical since March 9.

1942. ceived a medical discharge Wednesday and is now at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hartke, of near Dieterich. Corporal Hartke had been hospitalized at O'Reilly general hospital, Springfield, due to malaria fever, since he was returned All the wide world Your Oross is at his side.

10 the wounded marine in New Guinea, the Red Cross sends blood plasma -and life. To the flyer in a German prison camp, it brings good, nourishing food from home-11 pounds a week. To the sailor ashore in Glasgow or Sydney, the Red Cross provides entertainment, comfort and cheer. Wherever your boy may go whenever he needs you -the Red Cross is at his side. And the Red Cross is YOU.

It's YOUR blood and YOUR bandages and YOUR sweaters and YOUR gifts. And now it needs your money, urgently. Give generously to the 1944 Red Cross War -Fund. Give gladly- every penny you can spare. The Red Cross never has needed your help as much as it does today.

It's never needed so much money. So please dig deeper than you have ever dug before. Our soldiers, sailors and marines will bless you. PENNEYS Spent 18 Island to sleep in dugouts and get along as best we could. Two months later a navy Seabees outfit landed and constructed barracks, messhalls, recreation facilities and made the place almost like home.

had a good recreation program, movies and a fine library which was supplied by the Navy and the Red Cross, before I left this month, but for a long while after we first arrived, it was a pretty lonely place. Had to Keep Ready "Although didn't get into much action we couldn't help feeling on edge all the time because we really were on the end of the line and had to be ready for action at anytime of the day or night. "One night we were put on the alert when a lookout spotted a submarine on the surface some distance off shore. We had no report of an American sub in the area so we fired at it and sent out planes to attack it, but it didn't return our fire and the planes failed to locate it in the darkness." Private Head said it is great to be back in the States but he hopes to be assigned to a marine unit which will go someplace where he can attack the Japs instead of waiting for them to come and attack him. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Head. rural route 7. and entered service March 25, 1942 after attending Mt. Zion high school.

He was given his boot and advanced marine training at San Diego, before being sent across. After his furlough he will report to New River, N. for training with another marine unit. to the United States in December 1943. after 18 months active service in the South Pacific.

Clinic Postponed Lincoln A crippled children's clinic sponsored by the Lincoln Elks' club, to have been held next Thursday, has been postponed until April 6, Miss Rea Snyder, Logan county nurse, announced yesterday. The clinics will be conducted in Deaconess hospital here. Aviation Cadet Tests To Be Given Monday The army aviation cadet traveling examining board will conduct screening or mental tests on Monday for persons wanting to qualify for aviation cadet training, Lieut. Louis Rost, local civil air patrol officer, announced yesterday. The will be conducted in room Decatur high tests, school at 9 a.

m. Monday. Those passing the tests will be notified where and when to report for their physical exams. GO TO CHURCH 000 Make Ready For Surgical Dressings Job Mrs. R.

A. Tearnan and Mrs. W. M. Bering, spent most of Friday in the Red Cross surgical dressings rooms, cleaning up in readiness for full speed ahead this week.

Workers who left their uniforms covered when work was suspended in December for lack of materials, will find them ready to step into. Those who left their uniforms hanging unprotected will have to bring a clean dress when they show up this week to help meet the emergency quota, as these dresses are all too dusty to wear until they are washed. Macon County Red Cross has a tremendous new quota of surgical dressings, 135.000 of them, and every one is to go to one of the big theaters of war when the spring push is on and boys are in need of mountains of dressings. Material is on hand right now for these bandages and the work will be rushed. Daily hours are 9:30 a.

m. to 4 p. Monday through Thursday. Evening hours are 7 to 9:30 p. m.

on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Every woman in the county who can possibly help is urged to do so. The rooms can accommodate 100 at a time, and it is hoped that at no time will there be even one vacant place, until this emergency quota is filled and on its way. When this quota is finished. the January, February and March quotas will be ready to be tackled.

plus 60,000 extra sent to hardworking Macon county from other counties in the central area which have fallen down on meeting their quotas. Aged Charleston Woman Found Dead in Home Charleston (Staff) Mrs. Margaret Fudge, 83, Charleston, was found dead, apparently the victim of a heart attack. in her home at 2:30 p. m.

Friday. The body was found by two friends, Roy and Wallace Eaton. who had been notified by neighbors that Mrs. Fudge had not been seen, and that there was no smoke coming from the chimneys of her home. The men forced entrance into the home and found Mrs.

Fudge lying across her bed. No inquest will be Mrs. Fudge had been receiving medical treatment for a heart ailment. Mrs. Fudge left no immediate relatives.

The body was removed to the Harper-Swickard funeral home where funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. today. Burial will be in the Hurricane cemetery south of Charleston. HeatHoward Sweeten EVANGELIST in Revival Meetings at FIRST NAZARENE CHURCH 1569 N.

Clinton St. March 5th to 19th. Services each night 7:30. Sunday, 10:45 a. m.

and 7 p. m. YOUR FRIENDS TO CHURE BRING Funeral Monday For Mrs. Mills Funeral services for Mrs. Walker H.

Mills, who died at 3 a. m. yesterday in St. Mary's hospital, will be held in the Dawson Wikoff funeral home at 3 p. m.

tomorrow. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. today.

Mrs. Mills, who was 51 years old. had been seriously ill in the hos. pital since Nov. 9.

but had been in poor health for approximately two years. She and her husband. who formerly was Decatur's corporation counsel and is a member of the Vail, Mills and Armstrong law firm, resided at 1487 West Macon street. Welfare Worker Mrs. Mills was a member of the Family Welfare association board the last 10 years and was the agency's most active member until she became ill.

She was the agency's representative to the Family Welfare Association of America, and was active in the Decatur asociation's child guidance clinic service. Came Here in 1924 A daughter of James and Rebecca Monro McCredie, Rebecca M. McCredie, known to her friends as Reba, was born in Earlville, Jan. 17. 1893, and was married Dec.

13. 1924, in Aurora to Mr. Mills. She came to Decatur with Mr. Mills following the wedding, and the couple has lived here since.

Mrs. Mills also was an active member of the First Presbyterian church and a member of the church's Study class. Besides her husband she leaves two daughters, Cynthia and Nancy, and a son, David, all at home. She also leaves a brother. J.

David McCredie, and a step-mother, Mrs. James McCredie, both of Aurora. Mrs. Mills attended the University of Toronto in Canada. OPEN SUNDAY 10 A.

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