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NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO Sunrise, 5:41; sunset, 6:27. Shippers plan to fight freight rate increase. Policeman Thos. Howard shot self in hand. Accident. Stanley C. Moran says Virginia left aim. Wants divorce. Ceo. L. Clark wants freedom from Tena. Desertion charged. School board charges movie cen sors with being lax in duties. Dr. Robertson says muscle paraly sis is infant plague symptom. Body of well-dressed elderly man taken from river at Diversey av. H. Chandler Egan, golfer, married Mrs. J. Arnold Scudder, divorcee. Ina Claire, stage star, to wed Lieut Lawrence Townsend, Jr., U. S. N. James W. Lowrie wants divorce from Mrs. May. Desertion charged. Lois Frances Farrar wants divorce from Don S. Drunkenness charged. Chief Schuettler wants judges to urge minor offenders to enlist for war. Trial of Det Serg't Jas. J. Kane in connection with shakedown case be gun. Edw. M. Tourtelot elected mayor of Palos Park, succeeding Ballard Dunn. Mrs. Lucille V. Ingraham granted divorce from Ira J. Ingraham, pho tographer. Police probing death of Mrs. Anna Swatch, 65, 851 N..May, from frac tured skull State's Att'v Hovne will ask county board to hold open positions of ass'ts who enlist. Michael Mvsol. Drisoner at South Clark street station, discovered to have smallpox. Mrs. J,as. T. Downey, 1634 E. 53d, chased Jackson Park burglar. Po lice got him. Gave name of George Allen, Roanoke, va. Ernest Wallace, negro, who was to have been hung tomorrow for mur der of Jacob Levin, granted reprieve until suDreme court passes on case Georgiana W. Youmans wants di vorce from Frank F. Charges cruel ty and drunkenness. Burnham citizens want State's Att'y Hoyne to watch Burnham elec tions next Tuesday. Health Com'r Robertson ordered municipal lodging house to close ) Monday. No funds. Susen and Helen Strabala, 15 and 5 years old, burned to death in fire in Whiting, Ind., home. Edw. Healy, son of Police Capt Healy, paroled for one year on charge of stealing autos. Chas. Lund, 4609 Evans av., fell from organ loft in church at Huron st. and Racine av. May die. Wm. Franz Wirt, 13, son of Sup't Wm. Wirt, of Gary schools, missing. Yearned for life of cowboy. Alfred O. Erickson, ass't corp. counsel, suspended during slot ma chine Scandal, given old job back. Albert Burns.Ohio nat'l guard, ar rested in pawnshop. Said to have been trying to sell gov't field glasses. Dr. Clarence W. East, state board of health, urges building of state hos pital for care of infant plague vic tims. Carl Vrooman, ass't sec'y of agri culture, says planting of small gar dens will assist country during war time. ' , W. C. Lee, head of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, in serious condi tion in Cleveland hospital after op eration. , Jos. Moriarty and Emil Cermak, , 109 E. 43d, arrested on charge of beating Sam Perkins, 933 S. Wood, taxi chauffeur. jJacob Friedman, 12, 1637. Hastings, saved lives of Mrs. Annie Cherbon ski and daughter, Jennie, 4, when they were overcome by gas in their basement flat under Friedman's. Three bandits forced Jos. Moreau, saloonkeeper, 1235 W. Harrison, and three patrons into icebox. Got $77 and $265 diamond pin. Richard,