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QUILTING BEE OF OLD-RETURNS, MODERNIZED " vi 1 --- I - ! Remember the quilting bees of old? Here it is, back again. The girls 'are embroidering -a baby quilt stretched on a frame, on the .lawn of a cot tage factory at Rye, N. Y. The modern touches to, this industry are the girls, the eight-hoilr law and higher wages. o o DENY STRIKEBREAKERS HAVE BEEN AT PRINCESS HOTEL W. H. Milan, manager of the Prin cess hotel, 533-339 S. Clark, 'denies that strikebreakers have been quar tered at the hotel. "We will not al low any Jabor agents or strikebreak ers in the house," said Milan. o o GUESSED RIQHT ON LOEB MOVE - Those who said Jacob Loeb. had three district superintendents fired from the schools because he wanted to put some Thompson adherents in, their s$5,000 jobs think they were proven right yesterday before, the school management committee. Loeb's crowd moved to make these three fired officials principals at lower-salaries. Trustees Lipsky, MacMahon and Huehl voted against this. They had not been taken into the usual secret conference before the regular meeting and didn't know what the Loeb faction was trying to put across. SAY' "CON" MEN GOT $94,000 OF OLD MAN MORRISON COIN Clean details in 'the case of Old Man Morrison carrfe out in tjie hear ing before Judge K. M. Landis yes terday. One instance where a bunch of "con" men who represented them selves as -detectives in eearch. of bonds which they told Morrison he had lost was related. Over $94,000 was squeezed from him on the plea that the chase after the bond thief was expensive. A former chief of police, a deputy cherif and two "con" men were named. The federal grand jury is--expected to investigate. 0--P- WOULD FREE LAKE FRONT Members of 22 business men's as sociations of the South Side met yes terday at the iiyae i'ark hotel to dis cuss means of freeing the lake front from the clutch of the I. C. R. R. Ix lie ivucoo iu luc juane front Club" was started. .te.,-. . j.AUiAAL