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mmmmmm rPP--'w M carat diamond on floor. Got $100 re ward from William Jlanrahan, owner. Office of Independent Candy Co., 326 W. Kinzie st, robbed. $350 taken. 1,000 Baptists praying for light. Trying to decide if "Bfily" Sunday is needed here. """ Robert Buffine injured by explosion in conduit of Chicago Telephone Co. Fire attacked home of Mrs. Henry Reggy, 1355 W. Ohio st. Four-year-old son Peter rescued by firemen. $500,000 suit filed against 14 prom inent lawyers. Conspiracy charged. Land deal litigation cause. r o o HALF A MILLION WORKERS TO HELP CARL E. PERSON Kansas City, Mo., April 17. Repre sentatives of half a million union rail road men, members of the railroad department of the American Federa tion of Labor, pledge support of the union railroad employes of the Unit ed States and Canada to the defense of Carl E. Person, the labor editor who is editing his paper from the county jail at Clinton, HI., where he is awaiting trial, charged with murder of Tony Musser, ex-chief of 'police of Clinton and strikebreaker for the Illi nois Central. The resolution was passed unani mously directing local unions to take the matter up at once and raise a de fense fund adequate to guarantee a proper defense for Editor Person. Attorney Frank Comerford of Chi cago was selected to conduct the de fense. Th$ resolution was adopted with great enthusiasm. o o MAY CAUSE BUILDING TIEUP Ahe attitude of the brick trust in refusing to consider the demand of the brickmakers of a five-cent in crease may cause a tieup of the build ing industry throughout the entire summer. Negotiations which were pending were called off yesterday when the bosses adopted their defiant manner. The brickmakers are the poorest paid workers in the building line in pro-, portion to the amount of work they do. SOME BOOZE PROPOSITION From the evidence introduced at the hearings on the Hobson prohibi tion resolution it appears thatf Wil liam Franklin, head of the Kentucky Distillers' Distributing Co., was in deed an enterprising man. When the booze company decided to go out of business Franklin gath ered together the names of all his regular customers and then offered to sell them to various booze cure hos pitals as future patients. The following letter was sent to the Neal Institutes: "The Neal Institute, Chicago, 111. Gentlemen: Referring to our recent correspondence with you, with regard m to our mailing list, permit us to say" that we had hoped to hear from you before now. As we wrote you, we cannot furnish you the list after Jan. 1, as we.are selling the business. "We know' that you can make our list exceptionally productive to you. Each man on it has been a regular buyer of liquor by mail and a constant user of it and there is not a single one who would not like to quit the habit. Each man is keenly alive to the injury of his practice and he is only awaiting some way of stopping. If you can convince him of the per manent efficacy of your treatment he is your patient, and you know how to convince him. "Kentucky Distillers' District Co." o o LETTER SCORES POLICE Chi&f Gleason yesterday received a letter from the Citizens' Association asking that an investigation be made of the actions of the police in con nection with the murder of Isaac Henagow in Roy Jones' cafe. The letter scored the police for failing to report the true facts of the murder and called attention to State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne's charge that the police conspired with-attaches of Roy Jones' to cover tip the murder,