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MYSTERY FOLLOWS RAID ON GRAND BLVD. APARTMENT In court they gav.e their names as L. C. Meyers, Cleveland, and W. B. Bronson, St Louis, but they con fided that really they were members of the South Shore Country club and that publicity of their real identity would be awful. They were arrested with several others after Patrolman Robt Gas tineau had looked in the window of an apartment, 3516 Grand blvd., and took displeasure in what was go ing on. Two of the women were booked on charges of keeping a disorderly house and contributing to the delin quency of a minor. A girl who gave her name as Paulina Crichlow is only 14 years old, the police say. There was consternation when the case was called in court when it was found that the Crichlow girl, her bonds and the papers had disap peared. The judge demanded she be produced and she was found later in the Clark stree1, annex. No one seemed to know how she got there. The case was continued for lack of o o START WORK AT ONCE ON NEW BATHING BEACH Another municipal bathing beach for the North Side! Lincoln park board says it will begin work at once on a new beach just north of the mu nicipal pier. Engineers say the pier and the breakwaters in the lake there will make the new beach free from un dertow. The water is now five feet deep. A hydraulic dredge will pump up sand for the beach. o o NO AID FOR ALIEN WIDOWS Dependent mothers of foreign birth who have not taken out final naturalization papers can receive no aid from the county widow's pension fund, Ass't State s Att'y Hogan an nounced. Ruling will affect 65 un naturalized widows now getting pen dons. I WANT PROBE OF PAPER RISE- UNJUSTIFIED, IS CHARGE Baltimore, Md., Aug. 15. Some thing more substantial than per functory investigation of the in creased cost of white paper was de manded of congress here yesterday at the opening session of the Inter national Typographical union. ) "The grip of the rising paper market is throttling the life out of many struggling newspapers and commercial printing houses," said Pres. Marsden G. Scott, in his an nual report to the convention. Washington, Aug. 15. Investiga tion to date into increased price of news print paper by the federal trade commission has developed that "there is no justification for the boost in prices," according to offi cials of the commission. o o SAYS RECTORS KNEW HOUSE WAS DISORDERLY PLACE Echoes of the old days in the South Side redlight district were heard in the circuit court yesterday in the suit for $1,000 filed by Mrs. Emma C. Rector, widow of the late Chas. E. Rector, famous restaurant owner, against "Jakey" Adler, who ran the Marlborough hotel, 2, 4 and 6 W. 22d St., in the "old days." Ad ler was sued as the guarantor of a lease made to Madge La Salle. Ad ler startled Mrs. Rector's friends with the statement that both Rec tors knew the hotel was to be run as a "disorderly and unlawful" house and that therefore the Rectors had not recourse to law to compel the payment of rent. o o EXAMINE PORTAGE PARK POOL A Residents of Irving Park have W complained to the city health dep't of the prevalence of skin disease which they believe has been caused by the condition of the Portage park swim ming pool. Dr. W. K. Murray has been assigned to make an investiga tion. He scoffs at the idea that tho water In the pool is bad.