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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
Rigs" axe is at work.

Rigs" axe is at work.
The control of the official election
machinery has switched
County Judge Righeimer has taken
hold.
The Thompson machine is on the
job
The first move made by the new ad-
ministration of the board of election
commissioners, acting under the direc-
tipn of George F. Lohman, chief clerk,
was to dismiss 119 employees who had
been working under the old commits
sion.
Chief Clerk Lohman, who assumed
the duties of his Office Monday, said
the order had been issued strictly from
the standpoint of economy
THE appropriation for the election
Office is practically exhausted and
there is no money in sight to carry
through the work that has to be ac-
complished," he explained
Mr. Lohman said however, that ad-
ditional forces will be required short
ly. The passage of the ifty-ward bill
by the city council, he indicated, will
require an augmented force to recast
the ward and precinct lines and to re-
district precincts in which there is
now an excess of the legal maximum
Of 500 votes.
No indication has come from Coun-
~ Judge Righiemer as to the make
up Of the new election commission.
Rumor has it that William II. Stuart,
chief clerk Of the commission under
former County Judge John E. Owens,
Is TO be the Democratic commits
sioner.
Judge Righeimer declares for clean
elections for Chicago, honest election
officials, and a fair count of the bal
lots
Repeatedly in his inaugural adj
dress, delivered before 1900 friends,
Judge Righeimer enunciated his pol
icy. II was the text also of the ad-
dresses Of congratulation made by
personal and political friends.
He had been sworn in Wednesday
Immediately after receiving his GER
tifcate OF election 1t is no secret
now that this action was taken will
the intention of precluding any writ
OF injunction or other legal action
that might have been taken in behalf
Of Edward A. Olson, who still claims
that he was legally elected instead
OF the late Judge Thomas f. Scully il
1918
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04

From "Oak Leaves" Oak Park, No
vembera 27
New complications for phone users
have developed The company will
not publish the names of Oak Park
and River Forest subscribers in the
Chicago book. A separate suburban
book will be published
This will cause great inconvenience
and loss to business men,, both in Chi
cago. and Oak Park, and will require
Chicago phone, which will cost $500
per year or more.
Under it's ordinance in Chicago the
phone company is required to pub
lish a directory at its own expense.
A classified directory has been pub
lished by printing concern as a
pIofit-making enterprise, advertise
ments being used in its pages, max
ing such a hodgepodge that it is
nearly useless. There is no law re-
quiring the Chicago company to place
names of patrons in other municipali-
ties in the Chicago book, although
this has been done since the fone was
first used.
Already the disastrous effect of the
new arrangement is being felt. An
Oak Park business man met a Chi
cago customer on the street.
Sorry to learn you have gone out
of business" said the Chicago man
looking at the Oak Park commercial
leader, curiously
"Whatja mean, gone out of busi
ness?" shouted the Oak Park man
your name is not in the fone
book" was the reply.
Then it all came out that the new
Chicago book has no Oak Park OF
River Forest names.
What can be done, is the question
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
new WARD PLAN
MUST " AIT

Some of the Thompson leaders
called halt on the f1fty-ward redis-
tricting plan scheduled to go into the
council for action Wednesday,
The city hall organization served an
ultimatum declaring the interests of
the ward committeeman it elected
last spring must be consulted as fully
as those Of aldermen in carving up the
city on the new lines.
Fifty of the seventy members of
the city council have now signed an
agreement to support the new ward
map tentatively drawn.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
RECORDER HAAS
PROTESTS
Saws That There Will Be Great
Delay in the Registration of
Torrens Titles IF Employees Are
Not Paid Adequate Wages.

A statement declaring the recording
of deeds and the registration of titles
under the Torrens law will be greatly
delayed unless the county makes a
larger appropriation for this Office has
been issued by County Recorder
Joseph F. Haas.
The statement was in the form of an
open letter to the real estate brokers
and lawyers of the county.
The present working force in his
Office is so inadequate, he said, that
although many employees work ten
hours a day, they are getting con-
stantly farther behind in their work.
At present, he said, anyone bringing
in a Torrens application for original
registration, requiring the abstract
to be brought down to date, must
wait ninety days before the abstract
department has finished its work and
turned the matter over to the Torrens
department.
The number of folios written in the
recording division, he said, jumped
from 2,227,S71 in 1919 to 3,160,656 in
1920.
I'm a private instead of public
Office" said the recorder, 'the very
minute that my business so increased
I should have increased accordingly
my office force and my equipment
That has been impossible.
1T has been exceedingly difficult
to obtain abstract makers at the sa-
laries which the county pays. 1t takes
many years of hard work and eX-
perience to make a real abstract
maker or reviser Our abstract re-
visers have had eighteen, twenty-five
and thirty-five years experience, re-
spectively, as abstract makers. Each
is paid at the rate of 1925 per month
a salary enjoyed only since March
/, 1920 They are the men on whom
| the Torrens department depends fol
proving abstracts for the public free
| of charge They could not be re
| placed, and yet their experience brings
them a salary less than that of many
unskilled workmen. If the propose
that the county reduce all salaries
by 20 per cent should carry those
| experienced revisers would be paie
only $3.50 per month. Experienced
| men will not work for such compen
sation, where political conditions at
| feet their tenure of office and their re
| muneration."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04

journalism is and has been the news
paper man who falls in with political
gang which feeds and clothes him and
who, to be popular, trims temporarily
the news of the newspaper which
pays him This sort of fellow some
times becomes a publicity manager
and is known by his smell. Their un-
usual diet breeds in them an air OF
superiority which they manifest
toward real newspaper men.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
COMMERCE ASSOClA-
TlON URGES ANTI
PARKING LAW

The Chicago Association of Com
merce adopted resolutions urging the
city council to enact the anti-parking
ordinance Wednesday. An investiga-
tion showed growing congestion of
loop traffic is caused by &c of the
city's automobile owners monopoliz-
ing street curbs. A r. Bone OF the
Chicago Telephone Company, chair
man of the associations traffic COM
mittee, said this inconvenience bus
mess and causes loss to workers rid
ing surface cars
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
ASSISTANT POST
MASTER McGRATH

John T. McGrath, one of the most
efficient and popular post office men
in Chicago, has been made assistant
postmaster.
He will fill the position made va
cant by the retirement of John M.
Hubbard.
Mr.. McGrath first worked in the
postoffice department in April, 1881
He began as stamper in the mailing
division and worked up to the position
of foreman of foreign mails. He then
became roster clerk and later was
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
Names of Chicago Democrats Who Gave
One Thousand Dollars and Over
to Party i'm Late Election
George b. Brennan Headed the List i'm the West
With b. n. Hurley Close Second

was adopted because it places the
north, west, and south side wards in
numerical as well as geographical
groups.
Under the plan wards 1 to 19 inclu-
sive will be on the south side of the
city, with the present First ward,
which includes the loop district, re-
tanning its old number. The Nine
teenth ward will be part Of the pres
ent Thirty-second ward It will in
clude the Beverly Hills, Morgan Park,
and Auburn Park districts.
The twenty-five west side wards will
be numbered from 20 to Al inclusive,
and the north side wards, nine in
number, will be numbered from AZ to
30
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
%e
EUGENE r. PIKE
SERIOUSLY ILL

Eugene R. Pike, former city comp
troller, is seriously i'll at his home,
191 East Walton place.
Mr. Pixies tonsils were removed a
few days ago and dangerous complica-
tions are said to have set in.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
new WARD NUMBERS

A plan of numbering the city's polit-
ical divisions under the fifty ward
plan was decided upon by the alder
manic subcommittee on redistricting.
This plan, proposed by Aid. William
F. Lipps of the Twenty-sixth ward,
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
JUDGE HAZEN RE-
SUMESLAW PRACTICE

Judge Irwin r. Hazen, of the Munlc-
ipal Court, announces that on his re-
tirement from the bench, on December
6. 1920, he will resume the practice
of law, at CPL Ashland Block, l55 n.
Clark street, where he will be asso-
ciated with Frank A. Mcdonnell, the
well-known criminal lawyer.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04

appointed superintendent of the in
quiry division.
On Nov. "a, 1908, Daniel A. Camp
bell, then postmaster, appointed him to
be his secretary, and in this capacity
he served until Mr.. Campbell left, and
was retained as secretary by Post
master Carlile.
The position of assistant postmaster
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04

It's final report shows that the Ma
tional Democratic committee spent a
total of $1,308,007 in the late cam
paign, according to a final report. The
campaign closed with the committee
in debt $272,364.
At the Chicago headquarters of the
committee $S2,063 was raised The
New York headquarters raised $1,045,-
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
JURY Commission
SCAN DIAL
Judge Brothers Wants to Know
Why Alleged Political and Cor
poration Pet Gets More Salary
Than Other Commissioners.

In trying to save cut in the pay
of poor county employees, Judge
Brothers of the Circuit Court asked
the County Board some pertinent
questions about the jury commission
by what authority did the board
increase the salary of one jury COM
missioner 100 per cent? the Judge
asked. "To increase one commission
er you must increase the salary of
the other two. You had no such power
or authority, and l think it would be
better if that increase was returned
to the county fund. How do you ac-
count for that conduct"
Simultaneously, two commissioners
spoke up and said they had acted on
the advice of counsel, and believed
they had acted rightly.
Il advise you to get some other law
yer" returned the jurist 81 just hope
some taxpayer files suit to compel the
increase paid that jury commissioner
to be returned to the fund.-
4saa
JOURNALISTIC SMELLS
One of the greatest blots on daily
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04

gave $1,000 to the New York head
quarters.
Chicagoans who gave $1,000 each to
the Democratic committee were:
J. F. Connery, Henry Hart
P. J. Lucey, Martin S. Hull
w. L. OConneu, John E. Quinn,
Frank J. Welsh J. F. O'Malley,
Harry r. Gibbons, Averill Tilden,
Anton j. Cermak, William A. Tiden,
P. A. Nash, Edward Marshall,
Robert NJ. SweitZer, A. J. SABBATH,
Dennis J. Egan, c. B. Stafford,
E. D. Hubert, G. j. VOpicka
CLYDE NJ Carr
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04

pays $4,000 a year. Mr.. McGrath lives
at 1130 North Shore avenue
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04
MORE FONE TROUBLE
Chicago Book Will Not Contain
Names of Oak Park and Riv-
er Forest Subscribers.

From "Oak Leaves" Oak Park, No
vemberr 27.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-12-04

One of the greatest blots on daily
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
GOV. CLEMENT
WILL SOON MAKE
ASTATEMENT
To Call or Not to Call, That's
the Question With Bet
ting Even

Now national figure because of
not calling a special session of the
Legislature, Gov. Clements return to
Vermont on July 7, is soon to be fol-
lowed by an announcement as to
whether he will call a special session
OF permit the democratic party to
get away with the honor of passing
the 10Th amendment. Gov. Clement
did not return to Vermont until the
time limit of the 'armistice" with
Lieut.-Gov. Stone and the report is
current under the gilded dome of the
State House that the lieutenant-gov-
ernor had the call already written.
Gov. Clement has not committed
himself, but indications point to call
ing an extra session. He has not re-
pudiated the Associated Press des-
patch of last week which was sent
from Washington after his conference
with Senator Harding. The Cover
nor further said on his return to Rut-
land Tuesday night that if he did call
a session he would set the date thead
of the special session in Tennessee.
Bets are still even in Montpelier
that the Governor will not call a
special session and Gov. Clement will
reach Montpelier Friday and soon
make a statement.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
MAY STOP PROSECUTION
OF LIQUOR CASES

BOSTON, July Did the courts
of Massachusetts lose jurisdiction of
prosecution made under its statutes
for violation of the liquor law when
the 18th amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States took effect?
That question was argued before
the full bench of the supreme court
today and on its answer depends at
least 100 cases on the superior GRIM
inal court calendar. Chief Justice
Rugg deemed the matterof sufficient
public Importance to summon judges
back from their vacations so that
there might be a speedy detelmina-
ton of the issues involved.
In the case heard today, counsel
for the defendant, who was found
guilty in the superior court of selling
liquor contended that until Massachu-
setts, in compliance with the provi-
sions of the Is amendment, enacted
appropriate legislation, the state has
lost all rights to make prosecutions
for liquors sold for beverage purpos-
es. He further argued that the state
granted to congress the right to de-
fine what was an Intoxicating beve-
rage and that destroyed the force and
effect of the Massachusetts laws.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
st. JOhnsbury Plays
SherbrOOke Saturday

The Fairbanks A. A. has another
game scheduled with the strong Sher-
brooke club this week Saturday at
Sherbrooke, where they plan to treat
'em as rough as they did here on
Monday. Another game which will
interest st. Johnsbury fans is re-
turn game with Berlin at st. Johns
bury on the 17th. This will be the
last chance for the local players to
take the measure of the New Hamp-
shire outfit, and they are ready and
eager for the game to come along.
They have picked up and reached
their stride recently, and are ready
for the only team which has bested
them twice this season.
Manager Hoernle of the Fairbanks
A. A. when asked whether a challenge
had been received from Newport re-
Piled that none had been received.
When aked if game woul be ar
ranged here, he said that he thought
not, as a game with Newport would
not be drawing card. The St.
Johnsbury team has been playing a
higher class of teams than that of
Newport and has ofeated teams that
have trimmed Newport, he said, so
that a contest between the two
would hardly draw very many.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
County Court Meets
and AdjOurns Again

Judge Fred NJ. Butler, who has
been presiding at the June term OF
the Caledonia county court, came to
St. Johnsbulv Wednesday to take up
some matters that were left over
from the last session. There was a
hearing in the case of Flora Z. Rus
sell VS.. Nathaniel Johnson and TrS.
This is the Hardwick case involving
the ownership of a moving picture
theater there. The plaintiff was rep
resented by Sumner E. Darling Of
Hardwick and the defendants BY N.
A. Campbell of the Mortified I'M
f Plumley G. Campbell and Messrs.
Shields and Conant of the firm OF
Dunnett. Shields & Conant. The
case will come before Judge Butler
aoain as recess was taken to July
27.
Jud"e Butler also had for disposi-
tion the case of State VS.. William
Moffett. the respondent having plead
ed guilty 10 breaking and entering
the railroad station at South Rye
gate on tho night of April IA and
taking a gold watch belonging to the
station agent and over $50 in money
that belonged to the Boston & Maine
railroad and the American Express.
On Recommendation of States Attor-
nev Campbell the younr man was
nlaced Or probation after having
been fined s100 and given sentence
in the House of Correction at Wind
sOr of not less than one year nor
more than two years. The latter sem
tence was SUSPENDED when he was
placed on probation.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
TRUE BILL
FOUND AGAINST
R. G. BANCROFT
Special Grand Jury Held In
Orleans County Friday
Bring In Findings

A special grand jury was held in
the Orleans County court house at
Newport Friday morning at which
States Attorney Thompson present
ed evidence against Russell G. Ban
croft, now incarcerated in the Jersey
City Jail. The grand jury found q
true bill against him and he is charg-
ed with obtaining money under false
pretenses to the sum of $4,000 from
the National Bank of Newport. The
witnesses at the special session were
James McCarV, president of the
Newport National bank, and Ray
Webster of Barton. Now that a. true
bill has been found against Bancroft
he can be extradited from the state
of New Jersey. 1t is expected that
he will soon be brought to the Or
leans county Jail to await a trial at
the September term of court.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
IRISH PLANK READY
FOR THIRD PARTY

CHICAGO, July efforts to Sc
cure endorsement of the committee of
4S for a plank favoting American aid
towards Irish I independence will be
continued, despite the adverse result
of a mail vote, it was learned today.
Frank P. Walsh, who participated in
the unsuccessful fight before the Re-
publican and Democratic conventions
is bringing it to Chicago it was said
today for presentation to the conven-
ton Saturday of the committee of 48
and the labor party. The convention
will be called to order tomorrow by
Allan C. McCurdy of New York, who
will deliver the key note address.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09

German representatives. The Allied
note, which amounted to virtually an
ultimatum, demanded that the Ger
mans accept the terms presented by
noon today and stipulated that if the
Germans failed to carry out the pro-
visions of the demands Allied forces
would occupy parts Of the German
Empire.
The decision of the German cabinet
to obey the Allied demand was reach
ed at an early morning session today
the vote being unanimous. The pro-
test made by the Germans in signing
the engagement, was submitted in
writing. In it the delegates denied
authority to consent to occupation of
German territory except as provided
for in the treaty of Versailles.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
FAIR PRICE
COMMISSION.
FIX PROFITS
Will Cooperate with u. S
Atty. Bullard in Fight
ing Pr0fteering

The Fair Price commission of Yer
mont have announced their rulings
through the office OF United States
Attorney V. A. Bullard of Burlington
and their findings on the question OF
profits are as follows:
"After a careful investigation of eX
isting conditions, the Fair Price Com
mission of Vermont decides that a
fair percentage of profit on the sell
ing prices OF the different classes
I of merchandise is as follows: Boots
and shoes (staple hnes), 33 1-3 per
cent, boot and shoes (novelty lines),
40 per cent, clothing, mems and boys
33 1-3 per cent, dry goods, 33 1-3 per
cent, ladies', misses and children s
ready-to-w wear garments, 40 per cent,
groceries exclusive of flour and su-
gar so per cent?
This means that the pair of shoes
that cost the retailer four dollars
may be sold for not more than six
dollars. The commission has found
that the overhead expense, such as
rent, clerks salary, and so forth
amounts to "a to 80 per cent in dry
goods, clothing, ready-to-wear gar
mnts. and boots and shoes. and from
Is to 25 per cent in groceries. So that
the net profit to a retail shoe dealer
on a pair of shoes costing him four
dollars wholesale and sold at six dol
lars is one dollar thirty-fve cents
+ after the overhead expense is deduct
ed.
The members of the Fair Price
commission are rio f. Luce of
Stowe. chairman, George n Tilden
of Barre, George F. L. Badlam of
Rutland and A. P. Simonds of Brat
tleboro.
: With the e-fnishinq of the investiga~
ton that led to the fixing of the pre-
sent scale of profits, the members of
the commission will devote their time
in seeing that the new rulings are en-
forced. In this they will cooperate
with ATTORNEY Bullard, who as repre-
sentative of the government is behind
the anti-proiteering movement.
The meeting at which the matter
of profits was decided was attended
bv some of Burlington's most promi-
nent merchants who testified as to
what thew considered fair prices, in
cluding F. D. Abernethy, the drv
goods dealer, and Thomas B., Wright,
the clothier.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
GERMANS PROTEST ALLIED DEMANDS
PROBE EXPENDITURES
OF ATTY. GEN. PALMER

ST. LOUIS, July 9-The Senate
committee investigating campaign ex-
penditures transferring the scenes of
its activities to st. Louis today,
launched an inquiry into the campaign
of Atty. Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer,
who was candidate for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination. The
attention of the committee as the
hearing opened was centered on the
reported distribution of two thousand
dollars among the % members of the
city democratic committee by Edward
f. Goltra, st. Louis Democratic Ma
tional committeeman from Missouri
to help defray the expenses Of dele
gates to the state democratic conven-
ton.
Checks signed by Edward F. Col
ira, Democratic National committee
man from Missouri, were given to
delegates to pay their expenses to
the Democratic State convention ac-
cording to testimony given today by
members of the st. Louis Democratic
committee.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-09
CAN YOU CATCH
A DOG? IF SO,
HERE'S YOUR CHANCE

persistence brings success IS
an oft quoted proverb, which, when
boiled down to its genuine inten-
ton, means If you keep at athing
long enough, it'll eventually hap
pen. With that to encourage
them, employees in the baggage
room OF the Union Station have
persistenly pursued an Ayredale
dog which escaped from the bag
gage car of 4 tram hound for
Portland last Wednesday and
has successfully eludeo pursuit
since then.
Shortly after the animal had
escaped men set out in pursuit,
but it was nowhere to be found.
Search led them to the St.
Johnsbury House, where it was
learned that for two hours the
dog had slept quietly there, but
had Just gone. Frantic pursuit
and Questioning brought out that
many had 'just seen it," but on
the dog itself, the eyes of the
baggage men have not yetrested.
When it was learned that a re-
ward was offered, the number Of
pursuers grew by leaps and
bounds. 1t is expected that all
St. Johnsbury will soon be en-
listed into service.
The lady. who owns the ami
nal has come to St. Johnsbury
in response to a TELEGRAM am
nouncing her loss, and this fact
leads the railroad men to be con-
fident Of speedy success.