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W O'HARA COMMISSION WOULD OUST SHOE TRUST LOBBY The evidence in regard to the shoe trust taken by the O'Hara vice com mission at Springfield will be sent verbatim to Rep. Hill ofHlinois and by him read into the congressional record. - This, statement was made by Lieut. Gov. Barratt O'Hara here today. The object of haying" the testimony show ing that the shoe" trust works girls 12 and 13 and 14 hours a day for a mere pittance read to Congress is to bar the powerful shoe trust lobby from the floor of the House. The O'Hara commission will re turn to Springfield today, and re-open its inquiry into lpw wages there. The Springfield newspapers are fighting the low wage probe bitterly. Next Friday the commission will return to Chicago, and sit here. At that time a number of the wealthiest flat owners in the city will be called before the commission. "Rents in" Chicago," said Lieut. Gov. O'Hara- today, "are shamefully high. I propose to find out why. "I suppose there will be the same sort of criticism of such, a move as there was of the low wage probe, and-the same old cry-that low wagek and high rents have nothing to do with vice. "But they have. Rents in Chicago ar,e so high that they prevent thou sands of young men marrying each year. And they cause thousands-of young couples to take into their homes as roomers-young men and women of whom they know nothing. ;That is bad for everyone concerned except the landlord. "I understand that landlords have doubled their investment within a few years by charging exorbitant rents. The commission is going' to find out about it." Nearly two-thirds of alj the letters carried by the postal service of the world are written, sent to. and read by English7speaking..people. . , .,JSr JUDGE FOURFLUSH MAHONEY HAS COLD FEET Major James Miles, chief of the po lice efficiency bureau, today reported . to the mayor that every attempt to get Judge Mahoney to make any spe cific charges of police inefficiency in the Desplaines street district has been unavailing. In sending the report to the mayor, Civil Service Commissioner Flynn said it shows "that Judge Mahoney has no explicit information on which a further investigation can be made." The other way of stating what Miles and Flynn said is simple. It is just saying that Judge Mahoney was fourflushing when he made his extraordinary charges against the Desplaines police, and that he suffer ed a bad case of cold feet when his bluff was" called. The report of Miles probably means that the civil service commis sion will-make no investigation into Mahoney's charges. This is little (to the liking of Police Captain Meagher. Mahoney reflected, on Meagher's efficiency and honesty, and Meagher wants a thorough in vestigation to clear him". LAIfEWEWS Racine, Wis. Franksville postof fice entered by robbers. $300 taken in stamps' and money. "Yeggmen" piled sacksr of flour around safe to deadensound of explosion. Detroit, Mich. Cracksmen blew safe at Automobile Stop Inn. Got be tween $800 and $900 in cash and drank bottle of best champagne. Sterling, III. Verna Knox, 24, schoolteacher, declaring to cousin she was getting color for magazine story, rehearsed suicjde several times.- Today blew out her. brains with shotgun. o o All in nature is harmonious; hence, if we be' not in harmony .with our selves it must be that we are not .in acprj3e with, pur true nature,.