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iBPjPPmi ipimj-JJ.ii.iij immmsmmmmm ETTELSON OUT Or BIG FOUR IN STATE LEGISLATION Sen. Sam Ettelson's champion pionship of Jake Loeb's school board plan at Springfield has cost Ettelson his place as a member of the combine that runs the state senate, says in side gossip. Other matters of poli tics enter the situation, but the at tempt of Ettelson to get for Jake Loeb the special privilege of address ing the senate -on the Baldwin-Otis-Mueller bill marked, the finish, it is said. Ettelson is now out of the Dailey-Barr-Curtis combine control ling legislation. Mayor Thompson's school board politics are losing ground for what the mayor wants from the legisla ture. To members of the labor lob by Sen. Ettelson is making the ex planation that he wasn't speaking for himself or Mayor Thompson at all when he tried to get the floor for a speech from Jake Loeb. In asking the floor for the school board presi dent he was acting on the request of Jake Loeb and riot on his personal Initiative, says Ettelson. N o o PUBLIC MONEY TO PRIVATE HOMES IS Hit. Methodist ministers yesterday passed resolutions calling upon Gov. Lowden, Mayor Thompson, state leg islature and city council to pass leg islation forbidding the paying of pub lic money to sectarian or private in stitutions for care of dependents or delinquents. This is in accordance with recent ruling of Judge Baldwin. In 1915 report prepared by min isters shows Protestant institutions in Cook county received $6,793 in this manner; Catholic institutions $253,326. o o HER PLANS WENT "AGLEE" Health Com'r Robertson has spoiled the plans of Louise Osborne J Howe, com r oi toe aeiunut cuy wel fare dop't, to wreck the city bureau of emBtoysneat,- woodyard and gar- dens. Saturday she signed on order discharging Sup't J. W. Calley and six assistants. She ' induced Ass't Health Com'r Koehler to 0. K. the order. Robertson heard of it and countermanded it. Anti-administration politicians say it as the administration scheme to wreck the employment bureau and thus force the council to reconsider its action taking away Mrs. Rowe's Job. o o GETS $600,000 AND NEW WIFE AS WIFE NO. 1 DIES. How is this for luck? James Watson, 8201 Harper av., is said to have skipped from Wigan, Eng., in 1906 with Anna Haddock. At the same time his wife and baby were going in another direction with an other man. Watson and his affinity settled In Chicago. Mrs. Watson and the other man tired of each other. She wrote friend husband. He suggested she come to Chicago and live near hini and Mife Haddock. Wife did so, oc cupying house next to Watspn. In March of this year Mrs. Watson, who had $600,000 in her own name, tired of her queer matrimonial exist ence and sued for divorce. She then made a new, will on March 30, cutting off Watson.' She neglected to sign it The next day she was killed- In an auto accident On April 2 Watson became admin istrator of the estate. On April 3 he buried his wife. On April 4 he mar ried Miss Haddock. o o CONSIDER HOUSING PROBLEM OF NEGROES Chicago Real Estate board yester day appointed a special ommittee to solve problem of negro invasion of what residence districts. Colored representatives said they should be permitted to buy property wherever they choose and expansion of present districts is necessary in order to gat proper living quarters.