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THE CHICAGO EAGLE
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GERMANY WITS
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tubLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
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und Truthful, k
FOR U.S.Lft
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CHICAGO EAGLE
179 WEST WASHINGTON ST.
Telephone Main 3913
Southeast Corner Wathinfton St. and
Weil. St.
HENRY F. DONOVAN, Editor and Publisher
Entered as Second Claaa Mitter October
11, 1889, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illi
nois, under Act of March J, 1879. ,
ESTABLISHED OCTOBER 5, 188S
Incorporated Under the Laws of Illinois
Founded by HENRY F. DONOVAN
The Chicago Eagle, a newspaper for
all classes of readers, Is devoted to Na
'Jonal, State and Local Politics; to the
publication of Municipal, State, County
and Sanitary District news; to comment
on people in public life; to clean baseball
and sports, and to the publication of
General Information of Public Interest,
financial. Commercial and Political.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922.
DAILEY THREATENS INSURANCE
COMPANIES.
"We'll appeal to the conscience ot
these insuransce companies first. It
In vain and they are unwilling to re
ciprocate for the tremendous business
advantages they enjoy in Illinois they
must be prepared for legislation ex
treme in character." So warned
State Senator John 'Dailey of the
Dailey legislative investigating com
mittee in speaking of insurance com
panies which derive millions annually
from citizens of Illinois and then in
vest' it entirely or in ja. large part in
othjer states. He spoke at the Chi
cago Real Estate Board banquet.
ESPOVICH GOES TO THE FAIR.
A grand banquet was tendered to
Joseph Espovich by 150 of his old as
sociates in Mandel Brothers.
The reason for the testimonial was
the announcement that Mr. Espovich
was to resign from Mandel Brothers'
store to assume the post of adver
tising manager of The Fair at the be
ginning of the new year.
He is one of the officers of Man
del Brothers accompanying Mr. D. F.
Kelly, the manager, who assumes his
new position of manager of The Fair
at the same time. Mr. Espovich was
lauded by his friends and presented
with a handsome Gladstone traveling
bag as a token of their admiration.
CHICAGO TAXES TO BE HIGHER.
Chicago taxpayers will have to dig
still deeper into their pockets when
their new tax bills arrive in March,
according to the tax levies passed by
the various governing bodies of the
city and handed over to the county
authorities for collection.
. The local governing bodies of Chi
cago have levied a total of $136,372,
157 for the coming year, as against
$124,728,281 for this year. There will
be some scaling down by County
Clerk Sweitzer and Martin J. O'Brien,
the chief of the tax extension depart
ment of the county, but their powers
of pruning are strictly limited by
legislative provisions. Experts in
these offices declare taxpayers who
thought the sky had been reached
with this year's 42 per cent tax in
crease will get a rude shock when
they receive their new tax bills.
COMMONWEALTH-EDISON WILL
EXPAND.
The Commonwealth Edison Com
pany has received permission from
the Illinois Commerce Commission to
issue an additional $12,000,000 capital
stock. It will be offered to stock
holders at par on the basis of one
share for every five now held. Offer
ing of stock following sale of $7,143,
,000 5 per cent bonds recently is in
line with the Insull policy of having
more stock than bonds outstanding.
There is now $59,902,200 capital stock
outstanding.
j President Samuel Insull estimates
that Commonwealth Edison this year
!will have expended between $20,000,
,000 and $25,000,000, for improvements
jto enable it to keep facilities close
jto expanding demand for power.
Next year's budget calls for an ad
ditional $25,000,000 to $30,000,000, a
good part of which is expected to be
'raised through sale of stock. Output
is considerably below demand,
j Construction program for the next
four years calls for expenditure of
! between $100,000,000 and $125,000,000
for extensions and improvements.
This will double capacity, mow the
largest of any electric company pro
ducing power by .steam.
Judge Bernard P. Barasa, one of
the test vote getters in the Repub
lican party,, is much talked of for
mayor by numbers of his friends.
The drivers of mall motor trucks
imagine that they own the boulevards
because their contractor boss works
; lor Uncle Sam. As a rule they pay
no attention to the rights of other
vehicles and cause many accidents.
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Popular President of the Sanitary District of Chicago,
Make a Good Mayor.
PL0ii1M Mm IP
T a Ik About Men and M atters
Connected With Public Affairs
in All the Different Camps
Mayor Thompson at a conference
with his ward committeemen at the
City Hall urged them to greater ef
forts in securing the pledge cards.
About 40,000 already have been
turned in. The mayor is said to have
set his minimum mark at 150,000.
During the conference he repeated
his statement at the Medinah Tem
ple meeting that he wanted to know
how the people felt, about his candi
dacy for a third term.
If the people, ' he said, indicated
that they were not for him, he would
step aside for some other candidate.
The pledge cards, he said, ought to
giye a pretty fair line on sentiment,
and as soon as that was determined
he would act.
This gave rise to the report at the
City Hall the mayor had threatened
to retire from the political arena un-
FRANK WEST FOR
ALDERMAN OF 44TH
Frank A. West, one of the most
popular Republicans in the 44th
Ward and a member of the Board
of Examining Engineers, is a candi
date for the Republican nomination
for Alderman of that new wTard. Mr.
West is one of the best known men
on the North Side. He is a live wire
and is always working for the best
interests of the city.
His large acquaintance and inde
fatigable energy as well as the fact
that he is not afflicated with the big
head makes him an ideal candidate.
At Springfield on Jan. 8, Jackson
day, Illinois Democrats will stage a
state-wide demonstration at the St.
Nicholas hotel at which United State3
Senator Elect Samuel M. Ralston of
Indiana is to be the chief speaker.
There is little concealment of the fact
that the function is to be the real
opening of a campaign to give to Mr.
Ralston, who defeated Albert J.
Beveridge, for , the senatorship, the
Democratic nomination for the presi
dency. Michael J. Bransfield & Sons of
133 West. Washington street, are
among the soundest and best of finan
cial, investment houses in Chicago.
The name of Michael J. Bransfield,
pioneer .Chicagoan, has stood for al
most half a century as a symbol for
honesty and ability.
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JOHN F. CULLERTON,
Fire Commissioner, Who Aims to Co-ordinate State and
City Fire Fighting Forces.
Hard-working
Who Would
less his ward committeemen got a
move on.
Friends of the mayor, however, said
the inference was somewhat of an
exaggeration and seemed confident
his formal announcement of a third
term candidacy would be forthcoming
in a few days.
The Brundage-Deneen factions still
mark time, awaiting the recovery of
Mr. Brundage, confined to a hospital
with a threatened attack of appendi
citis, but on the road to recovery.
A new name was brought into the
speculation On the Republican side
yesterday Charles A. Stevens, head
of the big State street department
store.
An effort was made to induce for
mer Congressman George Edmund
Foss to enter the lists, but the latest
information is that Mr. Foss will re
fuse to be a candidate.
DEMOCRATS TALKED
OF FOR MAYOR
Patrick A. Nash, Joseph Sabath,
Thomas A. Smyth, Judge M. L. Mc
Kinley, Carter H. Harrison, Clayton
F. Smith, Dennis J. Egan, James
Hamilton Lewis, William L. O'Con
nell, Judge Donald L. Morrill, John
P. McGoorty, John E. Traeger, Henry r
Stuekart, Robert M. Sweitzer, Judge
John J. Sullivan, William H. Sexton,
James McAndrews, P. J. Lucey, Judge
Frank Johnston Jr. Judge W. E.
Dever, Michael L. Igoe, Ulysses S.
Schwartz, Edward F. Dunne.
M. J. Dwyer, athlete, physical cul
ture director and all-around health
builder, is president of The Keepfit
Club at 520 Consumers Building.
Some of the best men in Chicago be
long to it and are advising their
friends to do likewise.
C. Arch Williams, the popular
Master-in-Chancery, would make a
good record on the Superior bench and
should be elected to it in the opinion
of his friends.
Police favoritism in the matter oX
loop parking is a public scandaL
Judge Frank Johnston, Jr., as a
Democratic candidate for mayor would
be a sure winner in the opinion of
his many friends.
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Berlin Seeks a Four-Power
Treaty in Europe.
INFORMAL REQUEST IS MADE
Cuno Urges the United States to
Sound Great Britain, France and
Italy on Proposed 30-Year
Plan.
Washington. .Doc. 27. Germany
has suggested informally that the
Unite! States sound the European
powers on their disposition to enter
into i four-jovor part to preserve the
peace- similar to the four-power Ta
eilie treaty. The four European pow
ers would be t.l resit Britain, France.
Italy, und Germany.
Asks Thirty Yesrs cf Peace.
Under the terms Great Britain,
France, Italy, and Germany would en
ter into an agreement not to make
war for a period of years probably
thirty. The United States would not
he a party to the agreement and its
connection would be merely that of
intermediary.
The proposed agreement would be
'particularly, acceptable to ' Germany,
inasmuch as it is calculated not only
to jrive France guarantees against any
possible aggression by Germany and
thus would deprive her of a main ar
gument against a large standing army,
but would also guarantee Germany
against further occupation of German
territory.
Overture Made at Berlin.
The proposal of the German gov
ernment presumably was communi
cated to the United States through
the American ambassador at Berlin,
the German embassy here stating that
it was not the channel of communica
tion. 3 CHIEF DISEASES DECREASE
Census Report Shows Heart Ailments,
Flu and Tuberculosis
Falling Of.
Washington, Dec. 28. Declines in
the death rate from heart disease, in
fluenza and pneumonia and tubercu
losis in all its forms, the three prin
cipal causes of death in the United
States, were the outstanding features
of 1021, which shows the lowest death
rate recorded in any year since the
beginning of the annual compilations
in 1900, the census bureau announced
here. .
Increases were shown in the rate
for cancer, automobile accidents and
injuries, diphtheria, typhoid, suicide
and homicide and several other causes.
BABY THROWN IN MAIL SACK
Cleveland Mother Loses Her Infant in
Rush of Mailing Christmas
Packages.
Cleveland, Dec. 23. From a crowd
of Christinas shoppers in the main
post oflice came the cries of a mother
for her lost infant. While the mother
was addressing packages she placed
the child in a market basket. Her
packages ready to be mailed, she
looked for the baby. It lu.d disap
peared. The basket, with its contents, had
been picked up by a post office em
ployee and thrwri "into a mail sack.
Cries from the child as the sack was
about to be placed on a mail truck
led to its discovery
DRYS GIVE OUT BOOZE DATA
Headquarters at Washington Report
100 Christmas Revelers Killed
by Poison "Hootch."
Washington, Dec. 28. Poisoned
booze cost nearly 100 lives during the
Christmas holidays in tlw . United
States, according to reports compiled
by prohibition headquarters here.
Converted denatured alcohol was
blamed for the majority of the deaths.
Prohibition directors estimate thou
sands are undergoing treatment in
homes or hospitals.
FIGHTS BIG POSSE ALONE
West Virginian Taken Wounded After
Home Has Been Riddled in
Battle of 100 Bullets.
Steubenville, O., Dec. 28. More than
1,200 shots were exchanged between of
ficers and armed citizens "and Joseph
Jones, fifty, at Follansbee, W. Va., after
Jones had shot Harry Jones, a deputy
sheriff, and barricaded himself in his
home. Jones was taken after his home
had been riddled with bullets from ma
chine guns and riot guns and he had
been shot in the leg.
REDS WANT U. S. DOLLARS
$1 Buys 57,000,000 Russian Rubles in
Moscow in Scramble for For
eign Currency.
Moscow, Dec. 23. The demand for
foreign currency has been so great
during the last few days that for a
time the dollar on the Black bourse
brought 57.000,000 rubles. The market
closed at 45,000,000.
Crime Is rampant in the city. If
lawbreaker is permitted to openly
defy the law within a block of th
office of the Chief of Police why
shouldn't crime be rampant?
The Chicago Eagle
is One Weekly in Chicago whose
bound files show issues for every
week since October 5, 1889.
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FRANK
President of the Big Heco Envelope
Work of Illinois
Republican State Senators have
agreed on the following program for
the session which opens next Wednes
day: "1. The submission to the people
of the so-called 'Gateway amendment'
permitting the submission of more
than one amendment to the state con
stitution at the same session.
"2. The adoption of a senate rule
that all appropriation bills or amend
ments to same be printed in their
final form and placed upon the desks
of the members of the senate at least
three days before the final vote upon
same.
For Separate Bids.
"3. The adoption of a senate rule
providing that a separate appropria
tion bill be passed for each state offi
cer and department of the state gov
ernment. "4. The adoption of a senate rule
that no matter, not the subject of a
difference between the two houses ot
the general assembly, be included in
the report of a conference committee
or any appropriation bill submitted to
it.
"5. That no deficiency appropria
tion bill be adopted by the senate un-
AND HARRISON'S PRI
VATE SECY IS STILL
CHIEF OF POLICE
(From the Daily News of last Tues
day, Dec. 19.)
With the opening of the January
session of the grand jury, investiga
tion of the vice conditions in the city
that make Chicago "worse than .
Paris," as disclosed in a report of
the Juvenile Protective Association,
will be taken up, it was learned to
day. Mrs. Bowen and Miss Binford vis
ited Chief Justice McKinley last week
in regard to the cleaning up of the
vicious resorts, which they say are
influencing the youth of the city to
evil, it was understood, and at that
time were told that immediate action
would be taken when a formal report
was entered. That Chicago is the
"worst city in America" was charged
after the survey made by the Juve
nile Protective Association.
Otto Kerner, the able lawyer who
is frequently mentioned for Judge of
the Superior Court, would grace the
bench.
The Chicago Eagle reaches fifty
thousand people who make public
opinion and whose influence is paramount.
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Republican Leader in the Illinois State Senate.
HOGAN,
Company and Respected Citizen.
Lawmaking Body
t:l after a thorough consideration of
the same.
"C: That no increase in any tax
levy rates be authorized by the sen
ate without a showing of the urgent
necessity for the same.
"7. That no increase in the appro
priation to any department of the
state government be authorized at the
Fifty-third general assembly without
a showing of the urgent necessity for
the same.
8. That the general assembly shall
insist upon strict compliance with the
law requiring each state officer and
each department of the state govern
ment to make to the governor and the
general assembly reports in detail of
all receipts and expenditures of such
office or department.
"9. That there be a thorough re
vision of the road laws of the state
providing for the preservation and
maintenance of the roads and for prop
er regulation of trucks and busses
engaged in freight and passenger traf
fic." The program committee consisted
of Senators Dailey, Essington, Mc
Murray, Barr, Meents, Turnbaugh,
Glenn, Buck and Kessinger. All but
Kessinger were present.
ELECTION CALEN
DAR FOB 1923
Feb. 6 Registration for February
primary and general aldermanic elec
tion. Feb. 7 and 8 Canvas of precincts
by clerks of election.
Feb. 10 Revision of registration.
Feb. 27 Primary and general al
dermanic election.
March 13 Registration - for, city
election.
March 14 and 15 Canvass of pre
cincts. March 17 Revision.
April 3 City election.
Nov. 6 Judicial election. ,
One of the many officers who has
complained of the favoritism shown
to a fellow who parks his car nearly
every day on Washington street for
hours at a time, said:
"I have served eight 'slips' on this
fellow. He pays no attention to them
and threatens to get my job. I have
reported it to my superiors. Yet noth
ing is done. The fellow's pull Is too
strong."
Dennis J. Egan nas made a fine
record In every official position he
has held. He is pleasing everybody
as Chief Bailiff of the Municipal
Court.
Encouraging Report Received by
Government Department.
RECORD IN BUILDING TRADE
Manufacturing Sections of Country
Report a Shortage of Skilled Work
ersFew States Affected by i
Seasonal Suspensions.
Washington, Dec. 2C The employ
ment situation is encouraging and
prospects are brigM for the remainder
of the winter, according to a survey
just completed by the employment
service of the Department of Labor.
Nearly all states reported a condition
much better than at this time last
year, and the siturtion was described
as fair to good in most sections.
Few Unfavorable Reports.
States affected by seasonal suspen
sion of logging operations or farm
work, and those where transportation
is hampered by strikes and car short
ages, were the only ones reporting un
favorably, and in all of them improve
ment was expected soon after the first
of the year.
Building operations throughout the
country were reported holding a pace
almost unprecedented, only a few
states In the North showing a slowing
up because of the weather.
Shortage of Skilled Labor.
The manufacturing states, almost
without exception, reported shortages
of skilled mechanics. Textile mills
were running full blast and needed
labor. The automobile industry also
was running 100 per cent, but the
labor supply about equaled the de
mand. The steel idustry showed a
general expansion, with c demand for
all kinds of labor.
ENGINEER PREVENTS WRECK
Quk' Wit of Locomotive Driver
Saves Fast Santa Fe Train
Robbery Motive.
Chicago, Dec. 0. Quick wit of the
engineer of Santa Fe train No. 5,
a flier for Texas ar.'I Oklahoma,
thwarted an attempt to wreck it at
Joliet Christmas night. The train car
ried several Pullmans in addition to
five mail and express cars. Robbery is
supposed to have 'teen the motive.
As the train nc-ared Joliet the engi
neer saw several p rsons bending over
the rails and he applied the brakes
so suddenly passengers were thrown
from their seats. The men dashed
away just as the train came to a stop
ten feet from them. Inspection re
vealed that fourteen spikes had been
Inlled and the fishplates torn aside,
thus loosening one ruil.
SAY KLAN OPPOSES VIOLENCE
Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans De
clares Ku ! Klux Are Sworn to
Obey U. S. Laws.
Washington, Dec. 2G That the Ku
Klux Klan does not practice or con
done violence, (hat it exerts moral
suasion only, that the hooded robe is
never worn in public except on pa
rade, and that the qlan is not In poli
tics are assertions in a statement
made by Imperial Wizard II. W. Ev
ans at the close of' his week ?n Wash
ington. "
JILTED, KILLS 3 AND SELF
Suitor, 40, Spurned by Girl, 16, Shoots
Her Sister, Brother and
Baby.
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 2G. Rejection
of his advances toward Helen Engel,
sixteen, last spring. Is believed to
have so crazed Emil Neuriter, forty,
a ferry boat propri'tr.:, that be turned
Christmas joy hit tragedy In her
home by killing her two sisters, a
brother and end'.ug his own life.
CHICAG0ANS SPEND MONEY
Christmas Celebration Cost Windy
City Residents $100,000,000,
It Is Estimated.
Chicago, Dec. 20. Chicago paid
$100,000,000 for its Christmas celebra
tion, it was estimated by business
men. Downtown merchants said
about $80,000,000 was spent during
i December for retail Christmas mer
chandise. Outlying districts sold be
tween $15,000,000 and $20,000,000
worth.
ACTION HAMPERED BY LIMIT
Further Legislation May Be Neces
sary for Government of Refund
ing Commission.
Washington, Dec. 27. Further leg
islation .uthorizing the foreign debt
refunding cemmission to offer more fa
vorable terms to the European na
tions may be necessary before much
progress is made in the refunding
process, say administration, officials.
U. S. Dry Shakeup In Sight.
Washington, Dec. 2G, Reorganiza
tion of the prohibition unit will be
gin on NeVi Year's day with appoint
ments, dismissals and transfers in the
official ranks of the dry force through
put the United States, it was stated
at Commissioner Haynes' oflice here
Repeating and fraudulent voting at
elections is said to be one of th
latest fads. The public no longer
views this sort of thing seriously.
Harry Goldstine will be the next
president of the Chicago Real Estate
Board and Calietus S. Ennis will be
the secretary.
John T. Murray would maxe a1 splen
did Judge of the Municipal Court.