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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1917
Page
1
The piece outlines a November ratification election where bosses select judges and parties pay for ballot access. It lists nominees for Superior and Circuit Courts, notes renomination of five retiring Republicans, and signals likely clashes between Johnston and Wilson for key seats amid intra party realignments.
The piece lists Democratic organization candidates and judicial reassignments. Judge Matchett moves to the Appellate Court, succeeding Judge McGoor ty who moves to the criminal branch of the Circuit Court. Judge Scanlan will sit in the criminal branch until December 1 when new judges are elected and assigned. Barrett and Brothers shift to the county building to hear law and divorce cases, succeeding Judge Thomson. Gibbons and Honore calendars delayed until county board meets. outside judges may be hired. In the Superior Court Sullivan and Sabath join the criminal branch. Pam and Fitch move to the law side. Union Label League and several union leaders fill executive board roles. Mrs. Raymond Robins and A. Robinson failed of election by narrow margins. John Mangan and Oscar F. Nelson vie for ALF convention delegate. one chosen next federation meeting. Fitzpatrick-Nockels administration staff listed.
Frederick H. Rawson of Union Trust Company heads a local drive to raise 1,000,000 to buy books and establish libraries for soldiers. Capt. W A Moffett, commandant at the Great Lakes naval training station, telegraphed strong endorsement urging swift broad response and praising books for the navy.
Representatives from nearly all loop banks argued before the board of review for personal property tax cuts, requesting 20 to 35 percent relief and contending Chicago banks are overassessed. Arthur Reynolds of Continental and Commercial National Bank said banking assets are largely non taxable, urging equal treatment of capital. Attorneys Mayer, Judah, De Neen, and bank officials Wetmore and Hulbert attended.
President John Fitzpatrick and Secretary Edward N. Nockels were unanimously reelected by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Charles Dold led the balloting for executive board seats. Anna Fitzgerald of the Women’s group is noted among the participants.
The text notes most appellants were young farmers renting or paying on farms. Some sons stayed home to help retired farmers. About 40 percent of Chicago cases denied exemption were reversed on appeal. Appeal boards 1 and 2 handled 4,500 appeals with 1,800 exemptions granted.
Colonel B A Eckhart president of the Eckhart Milling Co. told the Master Bakers of the United States at the Hotel Sherman that government supervision of bread making and flour milling begun as a war measure may continue after peace. His address was read by his son Percy B Eckhart after a Washington visit with H C Hoover. He warned that many wartime methods could persist after normal conditions return.
At the Great War Convention in Atlantic City George M. Reynolds president of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago opposed harsh taxes on excess profits and war income. He urged stable laws and urged persistence of big business to support wartime needs while warning against partisan politics and regulatory overreach.
Reading includes names of union members and delegates such as M B Philp carpenters and joiners Gertrude Stoetzel Trade Union Label League Anderson paint ers and decorators Joseph W Morton stationary firemen C A Pease web pressmen Steve Sumner milk wagon drivers T G Vance court reporters Herman Beuhler bakers Thomas Curry printing pressmen Agnes Johnson boot and shoe workers for the Illinois Federation of Labor convention.
Banking executive Harold E. B. Foreman, sec ond vice president of Foreman Brothers' Banking Company, 30 North La Salle Street, loses his appeal. The board finds banking as an occupation does not justify exemption. Farmers fare better under Board No. 3 as sixty appeals are approved.
Farmers and Hoover forces clashed over dairy contract lengths at a conference led by Charles H. Potter for the Elgin Milk Producers' Association. Farmers rejected a month to month contract proposal, demanding six month terms for winter at 3.54 dollars per 100 pounds while summer price stood at 2 dollars. J. H. Rohrsen was chosen to represent them at a Chicago dairy conference.
A creditors' committee affirms plans to save at least 1 million dollars for Graham & Sons bank creditors. Letters to 12,000 depositors ask ratification. Judge Carpenter grants a one month continuance on adjudication. County official says bankruptcy route yields 25 cents on the dollar, while the plan could net 1 to 1.5 million and provide 20 percent immediate payment and 75 percent eventual recovery.
A private meeting of 300 property owners in Chicago discusses plans to keep "undesirables" out of a zone bounded by Thirty-ninth and Fifty-first streets Cottage Grove avenue and Michigan boulevard. William Kirk is elected secretary of the Community Property Owners' Protective Association and outlines a $400 funding goal. The Warwick Hall gathering on East Forty seventh street and St. Lawrence avenue convened without full public access.
W A Harris filed what is described as the only appeal in Cook county history by a motorist fined for speeding by a country justice of the peace. Harris, arrested in Homewood, was fined $200 and costs by Justice J C Howe. The appeal could deter heavy country fines if others follow.
A movement to jail Chicago promoters who sold stock in various appliances schemes promising vast fortunes. Victims include men who extended credit and received only partial stock capital.
Mayor Thompson issues a patriotic proclamation praising Chicago boys in the army and urging citizens to show support and patriotism during the period of service.
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