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In court of domestic relations on charge of not supporting son. "Wife didn't prosecute, but sued for divorce. Stanislaw Mermel filed suit against Polish Natl Alliance of U. S. for al leged libel. John Berg arrested as beggar. Had 6 oranges, chocolate cake, pie and $2.60. $2 and costs. Harry Hvorup fined $100. Annoy ed Olena Thompson, Evanston, with marriage, offers. Burglars robbed two River Forest homes. Police looking for Clarence Fox. Out of work. Amy Kleinosen lost purse in church. Keys and $16. Suspicious of strange woman. Mrs. J. B. Van Hoist spoke before housewifes' conference. Advocates home baking. Mrs. Josephine DeMarco arrested, Andrew Abate shot in knee in gun duel with stranger in DeMarco home. Coroner probing death of Rudolph Preis, iy2 years old, 1510 W. Erie. Dr. Frank Tracey, dentist, had wife's divorce decree set aside. Gave affidavits that alleged testimony was untrue. Daniel Meyer's clothing store, 1306 Milwaukee av., burned. $12,000 dam age. Husband wrote Mrs. Rebecca Beebe, 326 S. California av., he didn't love her. Divorce. Chief Gleason ordered probe of Mrs. Merriam's report of indecently clad women present at Coliseum An nex dance. Louis Levins, baker, quarreled with wife and father-in-law. Took poison. Dead. George Hanson and Sam Maggio booked on 11 and 9 charges of burg lary, respectively. Stole motorcycles. Ejectment proceedings to be start ed against loop property owners who failed to remove sidewalk obstruc tions. Fire att'y investigating queer blaze in clothing store, 917 S. State. MRS. YOUNG AND SONSTEBY fN SCHOOL BOARD CLASH The threatened budget storm which has been hovering over the board of education for weeks broke yesterday when Mrs. Young, sup't of schools, and Trustee John Sonsteby clashed over her estimates for this year. The board faces a $1,273,000 deficit Trouble started when Sonsteby complained that Mrs. Young's esti mate was not fully itemized and that her reports should show just for what each departmental appropri ation was to be used. Mrs. Young became angered and asked him if fca was attacking her honesty. He then replied with charges of "playing to the gallery." The problem of the missing $1,2731 000 is still intact. A 10 per cent re duction of salaries and shortening the school year by four weeks were sug gested, but neither motion was seconded. COUNTY TO AID DOPE FIENDS' Chicago and Cook county v are reaching ready hands to aid- its peo ple who are in the clutch of the mor phine or cocaine habit. It is likely at first to be a fight of wrecked bodies and minds in which the ministeririg institutions will play a losing hand, for it has long been a maxim among medical men that effectual curing of a "dope fiend" was unusual. The drug victims, however, will find letp not only in the asylums and the Bridewell, but in the County hospital. The first attempt at suicide in Chi cago because of inability to get mor phine was made last night by Chas. Parsells, 56, who was found nearly dead from gas m a room of the Gar den City hotel, 416 Sherman. O Ots ' YOUR FEET ARE CHEAP! J9 New York, March 9. $25,000 was value placed on an arm by a juryli supreme court. The s,ame jiiry a short time later placed the value of a man's foot at $5,000. ,.-1. -. .,u.