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LOOP SCHOOL LAND LEASE INTERESTS WORK HARD TO KEEP THEIR CONTROL Working like scene shifters and ctage carpenters behind a stage cur, ' tain, the downtown schdol land lease interests are plugging awny tq keep control of i the board of education. While the Tribune and News, both school land lease renters less than current market ' rate, ' nrfc pushing Mayor Thompson on 0110 Bide, the new' Chicago Public School lougue, backed mainly by Illinois Manufac turers' ass'n leaders, are pushing Big Bill on the other side for what they want. Charlie Wacker, chairman Chicago, Plan commission and director of the Chicago & Calumet Dock CO., asso ciated in real estate with the Mar shall Field estate, is one the friends of Jake Loeb want the mayor to, name. Others are La Verne Noyes, manufacturer, and" Banker Jim? For gan. Without any wire-pulling,' all in the open daylight for the whole town to hear, a committee from the Chicago Woman's club Wednesday waited 011 the mayor and put before him names of men they believe would make real neutrals and non-partisans, reduc ing the number of cat-and-dog fights that take place regularly around the school board. They propose: Mrs. W. F. Dummer, 679 Lincoln - parkway; Prqf. Geo. H, Mead, 153 E. 60th Bt., professor of historical re search at the Univ. of Chicago; Allen B. Pond, 64 B. Van Buren st, archi tect; Slgmund Zeisler, 0749 Wood lawn av., attorney; Miss Sophonisba B. Breckinridge; Mrs. Wm. S. Heffer an, 5200 Kenmore av.; Mrs. Mary E. McDowell; Mrs. Henry Kuh, 4404 El lis av.; Payson S. Wild, 5535 Univer sity av.; Prof. Franklin Bobbitt, Univ. of Chicago, and Dr. Alice Hamilton, associated with Hull House. "He stands for the same things I stand for," is Mayor Thompson's comment on whether he Is for Jake Loeb for re-election as school board president Mrs. Florence Vosbrlnk and Ernest J. Kreutgen are twa members the mayor is said to favor reappointing. Trustee Clemensen charged yes terday a plot is on to nose out Sec'y "Lewis Larsen, narrow his field of au thority, and put Morton MacCormac, statistician, in control of the admin; istrative machinery of the schools1 system. MacCormac was put on as statistician on request of Mayor Thompson that he be given a "per sonal representative." MacCormac has been hustling4 His biN for automobile hire during AugUBt was $1,000. How thk bill itemizes is a matter of finance the city council schools committee is barred from scrutinizing because of the school board policy of refusing aldermen the right to look at school board records. .LET 'EM COME, MEN! Sharon, Pa., Nov. ,24. 3.000 men employed by the Independent steel companies have been granted 10 per. cent increase in wages. 'Lowell Mass. Cotton mills here announce increase in wages to 18, 000 workers, but do not Bay how much. t ' Manchester, N. H. Amoskeag Mfg. Co., cotton, announces third increase Jn year to 18,000 workers. How much is not Btated. 0 0 BEWARE! YOU'LL SWEAR! bah 4jgrTB Calumet. Mich. Students of Red Jacket high school were arrested be cause a Finnish policeman mistook their school yell for "Indecent" lan guage." He said it was-all of that la Finnish.