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Eighteen N. S. Towns Plan to Join Police Radio Net ls Report nter ultiy r the pro mmunic: artitiett mmu, names Con. f flve them Len-day. The flee year term! 'd against the termimtlnn of l at the time a new admin- is hiding oMee. I towns which are tentatively in the network huve already d receiving was Ind tuned the brmdcasts of the Chi- ice station'. Wnukegnn has the station on trial, but has harm adi rvice is free, 3:! per month THE PRESS per mile of private telephone line used in connection with the system. In many cases that cost. tuna more than the estimated per.unit cost of the proposed North Shore rudio hook- A large collection of pseudomorphic minerals-that is, minerals which by substitution or alteration Assume the forms of other species-in on exhibi- tion in the department of geology at Field Museum of Natural History. Robert Sackman, 31, of 418 South Utica street, Waukegan, a well known musician and popular entertainer, killed himself recently by firing a re- volver bullet through his brain. De- supdeney was cited as the cause. BRIEF NEWS ITEMS FROM LAKE COUNTY Under the aYdormanic form of gov- ernment, Waukegan now reverts to the five wards which existed It the time the commission form of govern- ment was adopted in 1911. Happenings About This Part of North Shore; County Seat Doings Lake county hunters who took out small game licenses in Kenosha, are making a check-up on resident Ii- censes issued. William Schumaker, 39, of Ma Bur. ton avenue, Waukegan, died of in- juries received recently in an ‘auto- mobile crash on Green Bay road near the Wisconsin state line. Henry "Buddie" Brut Stewart avenue, North burned to death last l tractor struck a Chie and burst into flames. Appointment of an inspector of weights and measures for Waukegan, eompulsory under the Mate lnw in towns over M,000, will return ap- proximately $4,500 additional funds to the city. Karl Skillinzs of Waukemn, Me years old. injured three years ago when gasoline exploded at a filling station. last week was awarded $1,000 as compensation fur the injuries by a circuit court jury. John Campbell. M, a Gurnee farm. or. was crushed to death last week by a large limb which he was engaged in chopping from a tree in his orchard. His body was fpund by his sister. years a resident of Zion and a grad- uate in 1918 of the Zion Preparatory college, is making her first appur- ance in tho talkies. She will be seen in the new Warner Brothers produc- tion, 'Brother', Cry" in the near N. ture. = Benton Woman May Run for Office; Independent Mrs. Jeanette Aiken, widow of Col, R. H. Aiken, who last week was de- feated by Roy GriMn orNorth Prai- rie as the People's party candidate for supervisor of the new Benton township, will run for the office as an independent. Backers of Mrs. Aiken, the firtrt woman in the history of Lake coun- ty to be sponsored for membership on the county board of supervisors were pleased -with the showing made at the party-meeting at the Winthrop Harbor community hall. Mu; Nhtrn Elmer Ambrose Sperry, canny died in Brooklyn with more inventions than ',dison, Miss Dorothy M. Peterson, for 'ee ived 31 votes igainst Griffin', M). Thursday, Jan. 29, 1931 ft Brooks, M, of 2215 North Chicago, was last week when his ' Chicago street car 70, who re. is credited the famous