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teresting information he wanted to T look up. City Comptroller Pike ordered, dif ferent departments to make 10 per cent cut in 1916 expenditures as com pared with 1915. Must lay off 760 police. Little black dog who wouldn't get off tracks till he was pinched by po lice held up "L" service 6 minutes at Belmont av. Nearly $10,000 raised for Palestine redemption fund for relief of op pressed Jews at Ashland club ban quet last night Burglars stole 500-pound bronze engraved plate of South America from Atlas School Supply Co., 531 S. Peoria. 500 cripples, Spaulding and O'Fal lon schools, guests at annual dinner, Sportsman's Club of America. Jas. Pugh arranged feast Law systern of today too much be hind times, Louis D. Brandies said at Chicago 'Bar ass'n dinner last night Pled for "living law." Jos. P. Griffiths elected president of Board of Trade, defeating James' A. Patten, "wheat king," after hard. fight Board planning for new $5,000,000 building. - School board votes $2,000 for auto for Sup't Shoop and a driver. o o FORD REFUSES TO TOG OUT THE WOMEN ON PEACE SHIP Copenhagen, Jan. 4. No! Henry Ford will not pay for new gowns for certain women peace delegates who desired to make brilliant sho'wing at next week's conference at The Hague. Gaston Plantiff, New York auto mobile manager for Ford and now in charge of enterprise to bring boys out of the trenches, so informed sev eral women who put (the question to him today. They must wear the gowns they brought along on the Os car IT. or stay in their hotels. Plantiff put his foot down on an other suggestion I today. Several delegates .wanted to stay in Europe for a while, longer and wanted to know if' Ford, would pay their way home any. time, they wanted to go. Plantiff declared 'that delegates who fail to sail Avjth the' main party on the liner Rotterdam Jan. 12, will pay their own arest home.- Ifr was learned! today that Mme. "SchwimmerHungajfan, peace advo cate, was largejyunstrumental in ob taining permission or partyto cross Germany enjrpte to The Hague. Newspapers "agree"that this fact has wrecked last possibility that allies might look with" favor onpeace ex pedition. V " 'r '" ' ' . Stockhbln-uisjjenerally favored as seat for" permanent, peace- tribunal Ford plans, to establish. It is under stood Miss Jane Addamswill be one of the members. " - REFORM' PRISON WARDEN WHO HAS-'BEEN'lNDICTED THOMAS MOTTlOSPOJi0. He has'just been released on bail after being indicted on various charges growing out of his warden ship -at Sing Sing prison," New York, where he .gained notoriety by insti tuting novel prison reforms m .aMmMAaa