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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, July 25, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 5

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REINSTATEMENT OF TEACHERS! council schools committee asked for,
HALTED UNTIL AUGUST 30
Reinstatement of any or all the 68
teachers dropped by the scaool board
'June 27 will not come up for action
by the school board again until Aug.
30. That was the date fixed at meet
ing yesterday.
It's been by a margin of one to
three votes that Jake Loeb has got a
majority vote to tack his policy of
secrecy and his plan to destroy-the
Teachers' Federation. One trustee,
Charles Ffrench, was absent yester
day or there might have been a deci
sive vote overturning the action of
the nine trustees who on June 27
dropped 68 teachers of whom 42 had
markings of "excellent," "superior"
and "good" by SupL John D. Shoop's
office. Trustee Ralph C. Otis, whoi
is opposed to Loeb methods, made a
special trip back to Chicago so to
be. on hand in 'case anything big
came up.
Att'y A. R. Shannon read a state
ment aimed at exonerating Trustee
Eva H. Thornton of complicity in an
attempt to cover up information on
the Avondale school playground site.
It was a repetition of Pres. Jake
Loeb's statement Sunday with the
addition of one new allegation. This
was that Mrs. Thornton's husband
went in December to John Guilford,
business manager of the boards and
told Guilford that he and his wife
and sister-in-law didn't want to sell
the property.
Many statements to newspapers
were issued by the Thorntons after
the accusations in council schools
committee Saturday that they had
wilfully hidden their connection
with the proposed sale. But none of
these statements had anything about
the December visit of Dr. Thornton
to the scchool board business man
ager. Shannon suggested that the board
drop all efforts for tne present to
ward acquiring the Avondale site. It
was one and without formal vote.
aldermen of that committee assume
that Pres. Loeb doesn't care to make
an attempt to have the school board
back him up in his attempt to white
wash the Thorntons of all responsi
bility for cover-up operations in the
buying of the playground site.
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LINCOLN PARK ANIMALS TO
LOSE THEIR BEST FRIEND
Cy De Vry, superintendent of the
Lincoln Park zoo, who has made
Chicago's municipal menagerie one
of the finest in the world, is going
to quit The directors of the Lin
coln park board only offered a raise
from $3,600 to $4,000 a year for him
to stay. Cy has been offered $7,800
by the Selig Motion Picture Co. He
offered to stay at Lincoln Park for
$5,650.
So Cy will give up his beloved-pets
and htyce westward to the film land
in Los Angeles. There is talk of a
popular protest against his going.
Charges of politics have been hurled
at the board. It has pointed out that
while the board has refused to raise
the salary of their most valued em
ploye, other jobholders, hired
through politics, have been grabbing
off $5,000 a year and getting $1,200
a year extra for the upkeep of their
automobiles.
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N. Y. GARMENT STRIKE ENDS?
New York, Ju(y 25. Agreement
between the Manufacturers' ass'n
and the striking garment workers,
to include recognition of the union,
was reached at a conference last
night
The strike committee will meet to
day to prepare the referendum to the
union membership. It is expected
the 25,000 strikers will return to
work.
New York. Bob, Louis Weil's
dog, a beagle, showed up home to
day after a year's absence. Weil had
lost him at Yaphank, 70 miles dis-
As this delay, is exactly what theltant from Us -home,
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