Mr. Silas Strawn, prominent President Hoover, bronzed and ft Chicago lawyer and. at one-time after @ week of fishing off the member of the Extraterritorial Florida coast, went northward to-China, appeared Jday and enjoyed a quiet restful Sun-today to won a victory over day.
Mayor William Hale, Thompson 'To-morrow he will be back at the their battle over "a bankrupt White House and in an atmosphere! municipality. far from either quiet or peaceful. wry lis capacity as head of the He will be confronted with a highly, 'Ghieago Citizens' Rescue Committee, troublesome legislative situation de-Mr, Strawn has driven the famous manding executive talent of a high' MBig Bill" into. an attitude of €0- order for its solution, operation with those who have been Prohibition and the tariff are to most bitter political opponents the fore among the several out-for years past. standing problems which have gain-By agreement, Mayor Thompson ing complexity while the President} permitted Mr. L. E, Meyers, school watched his fishing line. director, to bring leading cit Senator Burton K, Wheeler's re-and city officials together. solution ordering an investigation Mz, Strawn was unyielding in his of prohibition enforcement is ex-attitude, He continued to hold fast ceted to come before the, Senate} the purse-strings, shutting up a Judiciary Committee to-morrow and cash reserve which is hungrily it may embarrass the Adminstration desired by officials controlling a to an unusual degree. The Montana ity 80 short of money that it can-Insurgent charges that correption not pay its school teachers or main-in the prohibition enforcement ma-tain adequate -forces of firemen, chinery is so widespread that a full police and sanitary workers. Me. revelation will produce many sen-Strawn's attitude was summed up. in the slogan "Ca-operation or nate Judiciary Subcom. ash, mittee will probably report City officials realized that they sure designed to bring about the must yield or no funds would be use of court commissioners for hear-available until next July. Accordings of minor prohibition cases, in-Sngly they yielded, with the best] stend "of going to the trouble, grace possible.
Tt is believed that Mr. Strawn is delay and expense of a jury trial, 'This is in accordance with one holding pledges for nearly G.$1,000,- the recommendations of the Wicker-(000, which will be released early in sham Law Enforcement Commission, the' week in the event that he is but it has been attacked already as satisfied that the city's government a bartering away of one of the Iwill be efficiently conducted without sacred rights of American citizens. the graft and general treasury loot-'Meanwhile the long-debated tant Strawn and his a thus far char. bill remains unpassed, and it will neterized entire period of probably remain unpassed until March, from present indications.—Thompson's administration Meanwhile Mr. Robert Randolph, United Press. wu engineer who has undertaken to rive the "gangs" out of Chicago, ranting Ins forces to sat
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