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THE CHICA GO TKTBTCTE ITAXUATIV IT. TOO) PART 1 PAGE 10. 7 ,1 tention to the fact that there is no law against overappropriation. One fald Chicago would have a better u-ontcwi hpfore proposed cuts will cripple nearly every department of the city government. Police, Firemen Periled.

36 or 38 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF 800 350 FIREMEN, PERILED BY BUDGET CUTS TV I CnailCB tu 8Cl nnm 11. 4.0 save the amount ordered bv1. if 1t had 1 the committee we would have to lay off iived witnln Ua reVenue for the patrolmen hostlers, janitors, scrub-1 few years DUt had flowed debts Can You Wear Size 16, Sample Coat Suit or Dress? JLABAUGH JOLTS TRADE BODY AID IN ALLEN ROW cuu vfujici employ pa lu 4rt llri the number of Ran i to pile up Jay Hall. Illinois asent for the Mer' chants' Life and Casualty company, income $700 a month, is charged with cruelty, drunkenness, and nonsupport in a bill for divorce filed by his wife. dcv iuat'1 dci; retary of the police department, to whom Chief Garrity referred the committee's request.

-To save the $608,000 remiesttwl wn 11,000 Lights Also Are Menaced, Claim. VOLCANO RAINS LAVA DEATH IN 20 MILE RADIUS would have to drop 350 firemen," said THIS IS THE PLACE AMERICA'S FOREMOST MAKERS DISPOSE OF THEIR ORIGINAL AND INDIVIDUAL MODELS. PRICED LESS THAN WHOLESALE. Poultry, rabbits, cavies know what they are? mice, deodorized skunks, and other pets will be there. Chief Walter Wrolff and Pipeman Arthur Brasemann of the Oak Park fire department, were injured yesterday fighting a $100,000 fire at th'e Oak Tark club.

Three women are working with test tubes full of disease cultures in the health department. Blewie! Steam pressure sterilizer explodes. Glass showers. Women cut. But they'll be al) right, if no germs infect their wounds.

i i Charles Lobstein hanged himself in the rear of an undertaker's garage In Oak Park yesterday. The undertaker, E. H. Blatter, a brother-in-law, said he knew nothing. The Oak Park police Denies Colver's Charges; Makes Him Target.

jl if I 500 Sample Coats and Dresses of the Better Kind-including all desirable fabrics one and two of a kind. Coats full length, all-silk lined. SPECIAL, Umbrella Mike Boyle is in the bridewell and some members of the Klectrical Workers' union, local No. 134, are trying to oust him as business agent. Ho hum, spring is here! A robin flew into one of Justice Sam Harrison's bird houses up in Evanston, you know yesterday.

See any bock beer signs? Charles C. Farmer. Clarendon Beach hotel, was arrested, charged with passing worthless drafts to pay hotel bills. The National Poultry and Pet Stock show opens Tuesday at Dexter pavilion. "Uiierion, manager of properties of the fire department.

"Ian already working on the plan to drop the oldest men, those eligible for a pension. I find that if we get rid of the 200 oldest firemen we have none In the department older than 53- if we lop off the 350 the age limit will be 60." If forced to make the saving requested, I should be obliged to turn off 11,000 gas and gasoline lights," said William G. Keith, commissioner of gas and electricity. That is about one-sixth Of the city's lights. Even that would not bring my department within the allotment, and there would have to be cuts in personnel as well." Here js what city department heads say they will have to do if the council finance committee sticks to its proposal to keep 1920 expenditures within the "estimated revenues: Lay off 800 members of the police department, includinffiOO patrolmen.

Lay o.ff 350 firemen. Turn out 11,000 gas and gasoline lights The committee meets tomorrow to consider replies from department heads, who were asked to bring their budgets for this year within their share of the revenue. The department and $39 $29 Mexico City, Janr 10. By the Associated Frees. Flames are still being emitted by the new volcano at San Miguel in the western part of the state of Vera Cruz, according to dispatches received here last night.

It is stated volcanic dust has floated as far as Cos-comatepec, about twenty miles east of the new crater. Every village in that icinity has been destroyed, while lava and floods of contaminated water from sources opened by the recent earthquakes are flooding the district near the crater. Refugees from San Miguel confirm earlier reports telling of numerous deaths from falling buildings and poi hadn't heard of it. GUS FRANK 2d Floor, 12 W. Washington Street (Above Bishop's) il -r Sees Advantage In Debts, neaas are expected to reply that the Department heads calling sonous gases, ATLANTA SEEKS "CON MAN KING" ON NEW CHARGE Charges of sympathetic harmony between W.

B. Colver of the federal trade commission and the Southern Wholesale Grocers association, alleged violator of a federal court decree, are contained in a telegram sent yester- day to the senate committee on agriculture at Washington by Hinton G. Clabaugh, former chief of the Chicago bureau of investigation of the department of justice and now an employed of the Peabody Coal company. Mr makes a general denial of charges made by Coiver before the committee to the effect that Chicago packers had framed the arrest of Rafael Mallen, former employs of the federal trade commission, and were responsible for accusations that the commission was a hotbed of radicalism and bolshevism." Says He Got Inside Tip. He declared the only charges of radicalism against any employes of the commission that were made to him while he was connected with the de A legal battle will be staged soon before Gov.

Lowden by attorneys for John Strosnider, king of con men," against Sergt. C. J. Jamelson of the i cv I ih 1. dt tf cf i commission merchants for sale in the open market.

Brings In Colver's Name. The only other statement I ever have made was that the federal trade commission could, in my judgment, very greatly profit by an investigation of the Southern Wholesale Grocers association, the officers of which organization at that time were working in sympathetic harmony with Colver and the federal trade commission. "The Southern "Wholesale eGrocers' association and its members have been successfully prosecuted in the state and federal courts several times, including three cases which I personally handled. Civil damages were obtained from members of the organization in the state courts for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Subsequently the government filed a bill in equity at Birmingham, found them guilty, and imposed fines against the association and certain of its officers and members.

It Is my belief that if Federal Judge Grubb or the federal trade commission will direct an investigation by intelligent and competent persons, evidence of a subsequent violation of the decree mentioned will be found." Nurses Quiet Patients at Johns Hopkins Fire Baltimore. Jan. 10. Fire tonight partment of justice were made by a member of the commission itself. This man, he says, was in close touch with such employes, officially and person ally, and should be in a position to know the character, mental attitude and habits of the associates of whom he was complaining." Atlanta, police.

Strosnider, charged with swindling A. J. Mitchell, investment broker in the Majestic Theater building, out of $25,000, is wanted In Atlanta for like deals said to involve $20,000, put over last spring. Sergt. Jameison arrived yesterday In Chicago with a warrant from the governor of Georgia for Strosnider, but while he was visiting the detective bureau, Strosniders attorney appeared before Gov.

Lowden with a plea against extradition. No date for the hearing was set. Meantime Strosnider is residing In the county jail. Although it has been only eleven months since he was released on parole from Joliet, where he served a' four year term on charges of stealing $20,000 from the late Dr. William T.

Kirby. banker, he is wanted in two other states, and Chief of Detectives Mooney is wondering why the parole agents don't take him back to Joliet. In South Bend, a warrant al30 Is waiting for Strosnider, charging con game," and in the county jail lies a parole warrant, it is said. Several names were mentioned and more or less definite information was submitted," the telegram reads. This information was submitted to the de partment, as, for reasons of policy, one department is not permitted to inves 4 i tigate the personnel of another depart badly damaged the pathological building of the Johns Hopkins hospital group.

A number of rare specimens were removed by physicians. A gen eral alarm of fire was sounded and the flames kept from spreading to the 'Voice in the Dark to Speak Phipps clinic and other hospital build ment. Explains Cattle Case. "The only other statement I ever made respect to the federal trade commission or its activities was that I did net believe it had information warranting prosecution under the Sherman act, as applied to the shipment of live stock, for the reason that such live stock was consigned "to com-mlssion'merchants in Chicago and was not purchased, by the packers until after the stock had moved in interstate shipment? I stated that this was the government's own view of the law in 1910. -and that no live stock count had therefore been included in the previous cases in Chicago.

"Moreover, the packers had no control over such live stock, as the title to same remained with the cattle raiser or shipper, and the stock was sent to Chicago on consignment to independent for Starving Children ings. FOR these coecliuidlSeg day3 of our FSeal Clearance Sale we ami nou trace even greater' redactions thao those which prevaifled at this great sale heretofore. In fact, the present prices are below our actual costsin many instances the mnaterflals alone cost more. We suggest you take immediate advantage of this golden opportunity. Nurses quieted the patients of the hospital and according to Dr.

W. II. Smith, superintendent, there was no excitement among ECHOES OF COU BUTLER KflXING. Brownwood, Jan. 10.

Harry J. Soanell To help feed the hundreds ct thousands of starving Hungarian children, a special performance of A Voice in the Dark," the next play at the Woods theater, will be given Sunday afternoon, Feb. 8. The proceeds will go to the Chicago branch of Herbert Hoover's committee for European children's relief. i I will take the witness stand in his own defense Monday morning- in his trial for the slayinir of M.

C. Butler. U. S. it was announced at noon today when a recess wad taken until Blouses at $15 J7XQUISITE blouses that a very skillful designing unusually beautiful.

Fashioned of wonderful quality Satins and Georgettes in Our Best Frocks ORGEOUS Frocks for 6treet and afternoon wear the very best in the establishment. Developed of Satins and Cloth materials some show elaborate trimmings of choicest of fur, others have fine hand embroidery, in cluded are tailored frocks as well. Remarkable values. Greatly reduced to $145 colorings ot the preferred sort. Greatly reduced to $15 4 Formerly at $250 to $350 Formerly $25 to $40 Smart Street and Afternoon Frocks Reduced e.

"DEAUTIFUL frocks of queenly Velvet, Chiffon, Duvetyn, Satin and Taffeta, in all the preferred color-ings, showing marvelous garnitures. Extraordinary values. GREATLY REDUCED TO i 5 $95 $45 Formerly priced at $150 to $275 Evening Gowns Greatly Reduced CLOUDS of delicate fabrics and loveliest pastel shades give these majestic gowns an irresistible appeal. Metallic brocades, spangled bodices, marvelous Satins, Velvets and Silks with ostrich and rhinestone garnitures. REDUCED TO $50 Semi-Annual Sale All.Wool.

Wa.rm. Sturdy 6 to 18 Years) Formerly priced at $125 to $300 1 I 5 I Marvelous Coats and Evening Wraps Reduced VI ARVELOUS conceits. Choicest of materials Bolivias, Duvetyns, Velours, Polo Cloths and Silver-tones- generously trimmed with luxurious fur. The Evening Wraps involved form the most beautiful collection we have ever had. ALL REDUCED TO MacLinawsp 11095- TWTOTHERS, this is one of tHe best pieces of Boys Clothing news we have offered this season.

Since Mackinaws have been difficult to secure you will more than appreciate the values in this Sale event. There are hundreds of Coats in checks and plaids; several styles, with big warm collars and patch pockets. .50 $67 $135 $175 Formerly priced at' $200 to $500 Blackstone Shop Suits Greatly Reduced INCLUDED are the most marvelous Suits in the establishment. They embrace exquisite creations developed of Duvetyn, Velour, Gloveskin, Twill and Velvet some generously trimmed with choicest of furs some plain tailored models. REDUCED TO $65 $85 $125 Formerly priced at $200 to $550 Little Fellows" Guits -jik (3 to 8 years old) On Sale, S7o45 'J'HE assortment in this Sale includes 400 stylish' Suits, consisting of serges, corduroys, cassimeres, knits and worsteds in models of Oliver Twist, Junior Norfolks and tnghsh Coat Suits, with or without belts.

Colorings of 1 i tjiaj, urown ana green; many with wash bl louses, unit or velvet trousers. Boy' Greater Floor The Sixth SEee 628-630 South Michigan Boulevard mm Sons State and JacksonOn the N. E. Corn TlTI)riIIIIIIIIIII I.