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0 Kosher Cop Brings Dove of Peace to Chicago’s Toughest District A KOSHER-FED dove of peace borne aloft on the good right arm of Captain Joseph Gold nerg has brought strange tranquility to that part of Chicago commonly Known ns "back o’ the yards." down 1 by the gas-house works. Here for years, the notorious "four o’clock Irish loafers" had their j stamping grounds. ; Promptly at four they would start j nut nn a bender of innocent n»»-rrl t ment and tear down all the show • cases in sight. Poll in Their Horns ! That is how they got their name 1 And four o'clock was the witching ► hour for all merchants in the neigh borhood to pull in whatever exhibits they had on the «utsid« of their stores. And for further illumination on its 1 history the district probably sired , more genuinely tough guys to the square inch than the famous "Hell's I Kitchen" of New York, f Included in its "Who's Who" and I list of illustrious great are such I names to be conjured with as "Rig I Tint" Murphy and "Terrible" Tommy O'Connor ! Only uie toughest coppers have Captain Joseph Goldberg ever been assigned to patrol its streets. But it remained for Joseph Gold berg, the first and only Jewish cap tain of police Chicago has ever had,1 to make the no man’s land referred to as tame as the tea grounds of a luwr\ fete. Goldberg, surrounded with every kind of Celtic competition, rose from, the ranks of a plain beat-pounder to his present rank through sheer ability. In fact, Just a matter of three' years ago he was still a plain coy. Then he hurdled in the shortest t1?sr»f on record here the intervening gap*, in rapid succession of sergeant, Hen tenant and captain. • Company of Irish Under Goldberg works a distr !ctf company composed almost entirely of Irish. The residents “back o’ the yards” are largely of the same .*♦*• | tionality and Jews are seldom e'en there. But the anomalous situaf.cn works out as fine as apple pie. At la kosher law is showing the way. < “A fine boy dot Joie," says the Jewish mothers of the town. \ And the Irish mothers are equallv fond of him. “Yes." they say, “a foiner mun' than Mr. Goldberg never lived. And! isn't he handsome in his gold lace) and stars?" Goldberg is the first of his riice^ • ‘Vt r to have risen to such high p/aee ,.i tlu- Chicago force. JUST uOOK WHO’S HERE! f «? { I Cyj\K> v>’ -T I XfcttOKG Wi'iVibU ' • PUBLISHERS • AlTTOCASTEB SXBVId »2G. UL*, J*X <sncs 7^ / teR ME 'to Answer 'niA'r ' ^ ‘ / (*Ali WOULD BE LIKE iNVltlN* } tTyself into Th’ woRRHojs^y ) NOSlR-NOrMS/FO PURDY / l knows. wUen Hey Si tiN^y THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME. y^ir^THe same\ ( OLD STORY Ev/ERY ^ ( CMRISTMAS, THE J -/I E)(CMANGlN<x OF / / V PRESENTS/ y / Yeam.i'll say / IT IS / EVERY TIME ( ANYBODY GIVES You ANYTHING FOR CHRISTMAS YA TROT RIGHT DOWN \ Town an’ exchange it V for something better! AND HUBBY FOOTS THE. DIFFERENCE. . i • - Another New Record, in Radio lndustrv— ' i Atwater Kent Produces Millionth Set FIRST AMD MILLIONTH ATWATER KENT SET • One million radio receiving sets! That is the record in production /f the Atwater Kent factories in 'Philadelphia. The “baby" was Dorn at 3:45 p. m. on Friday. Dec. to and was “baptized” by its proud rather, as ne lifted it off the deliv ;ry belt from among 6,312 others, which were born the same day. In the presence if thousands of em ployees and friends and to the accompaniment of orchestra music. Mr. Kent himself applied the final • u-sts to the millionth set at the in Tirument boards He was greeteo by cheers, and song as he stepped up •■11 a platform and displayed the husky infant in his arms. Moving picture cameras clicked a record of the event beneath Klieg lights. The factory, officials and employ ees called it^ a day in the 15-acre 1 plant, knocked oft work tor lubiia tion and, ai ni^n downtown. 500 of the plan-' : ives celebrated with a dinner-ounce as the guests of their chiet The millionth set was a six-tube, single-dial instrument in the latest shielded metal cabinet. Up on its face it bears a gold plate, certifying its number over a fac simile of its producer’s signature. Displayed with it by Mr. Kent on the occasion of its completion was the first receiving set made by the company only four vears ago. Number 1 and Number 1.000,000 will be retained at the olant and exhibited side by side, as evidence of what has gone between in the foui'-year period, the first Atwater Kent set naving been shipped in November, 1922. The first hundred sets ol the [second Atwater Kent million camti [ off the delivery belts immediately following the arrival of the mil-* lionth set. They were exact dupfp cates of the millionth, fcacb bore a gold plate certifying its oumber, and date of completion over Mr. Kent’s signature Thev wer« shipped Lhe same evening *o th* company’s distributors, for reteD-*, tion and display by them in cele-, bration of the million mark in oro, duction. \ Atwater Kent production vear( by vear. now made public for the first time follows: Year Nurnoer (Apr. 30-.Vlay 11) Shipped' 1922- 23 . 1923- 24 . 68.92'?, 1924- 25 . 175.46 r 1925- 26 ..‘. 331.208) 1926- 27 .*00.0001 tXNNfcfc ®5UL-w been caohv McTOWON \o ANN*fe — Sw / “DINNER READY?) [ L I’M HUNGRY A? A \ V XJUST MCURBOSOU <JOULQ HEAR, ME AN© WAS* DODGIN' WORK SO I RANG? *tue dinner Rem- and now MB, SMASTY M30 CAN WHITTLE YhE SKIN? Off Them POTATEf AND HELP MS OAUS’E Dotted yr Dots—and lots of 'em—feature this charming afternoon dress from .the shop of Rolland in Paris It is made of mousseline de soie. of black, printed with large dots of beige and citron. Twenty thousand people were killed last year in accidents in the home. It is not yet known how many of these accidents were due to those postar > stamp rugs tint slip over the kitchen linoleum. Father of 2S eh;' n. says Cm pressman Upshaw, has always be<-n a botie-dry. How in tl eder could he afford.to be anything else.’ * * * Two Kentucky school boys killed their teacher because he called them down. Those boys should move to Chicago after the.' gradu ate. * > • Psychic investigators in London aro puzzled by a girl in whose pies ence coins fly out of people's pock ets. Halve they inquired whether she Is a Follies chorus girl?