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SS5B5Sgg'Sgl rw,s'iv' iwf ipup ward, 6, wrote to Santa Claus, ask ing him to return her. Michael Nigro, 647 S. Clark, es caped from Oak Forest infirmary and murdered wife. Jealous of cousin. Gave self up at Clark st. station. Four hurt when auto of D. S. Da vis; cashier of Franklin Trust & Sav ings bank, collided with car of E. J. Learned, treas. Reid-Murdoch Co. Thomas Fahey, 16, and brother Stephen, 9, bitten by rat in 'bed. Treated at Chicago av. police station. Howard Burkholder, actor, lost clothes in dressing room of Apollo theater, 47th and Forrestville av. Re covered from pawnshop by police. Englewood Christian church to es tablish branch in Morgan Park against protest of five other churches already there. E. E. Carter, 3459 Walnut, dead tinder mysterious circumstances. Cor oner investigating. -Emma Exmili, 16, Forest Park, ar rested for alleged theft from home of Mrs. Margaret Waggner, 1721 Nelson. Nurses from Chicago hospitals to. sell Red Cross seals in branch offices over city. Miss Santa Gurgone, 264 W. 22d, "kidnaped" by Frank Gurgone, 2848 Wallace. Engaged to marry Frank. David Vollrath. former treasurer of St 'Mark's Evangelical Lutheran church, accused of $30,000 steal, sought by trustees. Thousands took part in dedication of Sixth Congregational church, Car ter and Augusta avs., Oa'k Park. Jas. J. McCormick, former alder man, 3464, S. Halsted, dead. Long ill. William D. Cantillon, general man ager of'C. & N., dead at home, 4234 Hazel. Started career as waterboy. Good roads boosters to meet at the International Amphitheater, Halsted and 43d, in convention of American Road Builders' Ass'n. Morrison, Plummet & Co. and Ful , ler & Fuller,"' drug concerns, consoli date. Capital $750,000. George Thompson, 1067 Ainslie, ar rested as "pale face" burglar who held up Mrs. Mary Holtz, 4865 N. Ashland av. Just finished prison term. Clergymen assail statement of An ton Cermak that "wets" control council and will defeat amendment to special bar permit law. War started on loop beggars. John Gleason, aged man, when arrested, told police he got dollar an hour. John Severson, on way home to Sweden, lost $90 to "con" men who gave him bum check for $372. Rudolph Kruger, Cleveland, O., separated from $80 by two "con" men, in Grand Central depot. Rob't Knight, building com'r, asks law to limit frame houses to half of size allowed. Fire peril cited. Rev. Orville Kiplinger, chaplain of Indiana state prison, says booze caus es 83 per cent of crime. Medical men praise Aid. Nance's plan to keep heavy traffic teams from vicinity of hospitals. o o ELBERT HUBBARD AND JOHN D., JR., TO BE CALLED 'Denver, Col., Dec. 14. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., officers of the Rocke feller Foundation, confidential em ployes of Rockefeller, Elbert Hubbard and Publicity Agent Ivy L. Lee prob ably will be called upon, to testify be fore the United States commission on industrial relations when it meets in New. York in January, for a further probe into the underlying causes of the Colorado coal strike. The commission is to continue Us hearings in the senate chamber of the state capitol building until Wed nesday when the members will leave for their-homes to spend Christmas. On Dec. 28 Chairman Walsh has called the commission to meet in Washington. o o - PET NAMES The coffee we can hardly stand We call, with features pained, The "Quality of Mercy" brand Because it is not strained. New York Tribune. I i$i3rihiMty 2'