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~DILGER WINS AS ] . . BAIRSTOW, MARTIN: _ _ ANDHUTTIONLOSE . / FOLUME*XXXV--NUMBER 14 t5*5' + The Loser: *:~M '.m -;.;ct..----.»..---fld *J --»t* ASST. SUPERVISOR ~ ty The Winnera Out in Newport townsaip Supervisor Edward Martin lost to Town Clerk Dave Van Patten while Supervisor Hdward A. Brown and Assistant Sup zrvl:or Edward Mawman were re Rlected in Avon and Shields townships :{1| Supervisor Bert C. Thompson avd »Assistant Supervisor. Hans Dronen, Benton township, were also re--elected. There were contests in only five of the nine townships sending men in to make up the board. Sixteen places were to be filled and 26 candidates were in the field. Only three new faces will appear on the board. ( The result of the nmho(muu in Waukegan was not an upset. Both men had felt extremely confident of victory. They had freely predicted suctesses at the polls. 'CORY HIGH -- ASSISTANT With him Frank Cory, Frank P. Worack, Jack T. Hoban and Dan Shotrt rode to victory for assistant supervisor Kr. P?. Diiger 6 .Fred Decker -- . 2141 6 David A. Hutton 1958 7 Wm. E. Zupkus 1686 &8 Fred Finer 1204 Catrying twelve out of the eighteen precincts in the township, Matt Dilger Tuesday was elected supervisor ovet Bupervisor George Bairstow by*> a majority of 273 votes. _ : Thirteen of 16 Board Candi-- dates Re--elected as 3 Are®> Ousted; Many Close Fights. Bairstow, canvasaing the city the day before election, failed to ftind strength against him but be felt the undercurrent. -- Where Bairstow had once been fair: ly strong, the North Side, he lost yes-- terday. The tirst six precints comprise this district and Dilger received 1,056 here to the encumbent's 900.© : , . --In the extreme southern portion of the eity, 17 and 19%, where Bairstow a} ways won, his lead was cut down. He carried this section 397 to© 232. prin-- cipally through the backing of the Pol-- ish vote which delivered in --a body. ~Monday it had been predicted that the vote would run close to 5,000. On the morning of the election it was seen that it would come cloger to $,000 Based on the supervisor 'balloting the actual count--was 5.767 which is 1,669 higher than it was a year ago. s Assistant Fight Close Dilger, considering the township as a whole,--~was generally strong, de veloping his strength in all parts of the city is evidenced by the {fact that he carried 12 of the 18 precinets. In no precinect --was there a walkaway for either candidate. 4 --«Two of the old assistant supervisors were returned. They were Frank Cory who received the greatest tri-- umph in his political career by gather-- tng ,2,77T2% votes and leading the field ot eight, and Jack T. Hoban, who ran second with 2,298. Frank P. Worack, insurance broker was third with 2,370 while Dan Short business agent for the steamfitters, nosed out Fred })ocker for fourth by $0 votes with 2,171. Dave Hutton, an assistant for 12 or 14 years, ran sixth with 1,958. -- . Cory led over his other seven op ponents in 11 of the 18 precincts, asn almost impossible achievement. Hoban tied him in the 8th, and Wm Zupkus beat him in 13,'14, 15,"16 and 17. « Decker--Short Close. * Decker and Sho--t put up a great con-- member of the board --for ten years or more and hasnot, for any length of time, 'been identified with fac tions. He hase been more or less conservative in poli¢les showing an test in the aseistants race and was as interesting --as the Bairstow--Dilger On the north end of the city Short and Decker retired with laurel!s even with Short gettinp a decided edge on the West side. Decker came back by Wwinning the near south side and then dropping the extreme southern portion of the township. -- The result was 30 votes difference. ~ _ "It was lots of fun," Decker laughed The failure of Hutton to win was more or'less of. a surprise. Some weeks he stated that the entrance d"s&t in the race wou'!ld hurt lh,wumuy Even with that bhe to campaign with his He had been disgusted with the board work for the last two years as his "wings had been clipped." He had been removed from good committees because he failed to back winning pol-- icies and cand'dates for chairman. George T. Spauling and-- Rannelie Cadmore went in as school trustees and Harry Hoyt as park commissioner They . were not opprsed. Ed., Martin is Upset®Q -- Supervisor Ka#>+rd Martin, of New-- port township, who lives in Miliburn went --down to defeat 229 to 174 with Dave Van Pattenu, of Russel, defeating Yan ,Patten, who is town clerk of the towoship, mds a strenuous cam-- paign as did Martin. . xz i Road work fea'~ ed the campaign with the antiMartin voters doclaring he had sacrificed the 'ro>»ds of the Frank Cory Frank P Worack Jack T. Hoban Dan'e!l W Shert _ _____.. The Losers: The Total Vote Te Y a «"A Waukegan, I!Il., April SUPERVISOR. The Winner: use s 6 Aien is enc & ® ® mss a LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT -- Lete County's Big Weeky -- WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN opponents in Tussday's election in Chicago. "Big Bill" was accorded a wild ovation by his© frtends when it became known his election was THINK CHICKEN THIEF MAY HAVE _ VISITED LAKE CO. LOCAL Arrested at Wheaton and Sen-- tenced From One to Twenty-- Thousands of chickens have lnul stolen from Lake county farmers dur-- ing the last two or three years. For this reason many of those who. have been the heaviest losers are wonder ing whether 'or not Ernest Overcash of ~ Naperville, . claimant -- <of the world's chicken--stealing championship and who has just been sentenced to serve from one®to twenty years in the state ponlto.}{u'y at Joliet on his plea 'of guillty. was gullty in any of 'the theits in this county. * So far as known Overcash con-- tined t thefts . to DuPage county where the--last five years he has been raiding chicken--coops regularly. He boasts proudly that his efforts Fielded 4,103 choice hens and raosters which he~marketed ucue-'{» com-- mission houses for a total of $5,021.50. Overcash plied his> nefarious --trade on a business basis, keeping tally on each haul and of. th@<money realized on every sale. yx _ mew. e In Lake county one of the favor-- ite plangs followed by chicken thieves was to stun the hens and roosters by means of -- chloroform or. sulphur tumes so they would make no com-- motion when the robbery was in pro-- North Chicago 82 to--74. Supervisor Edwin J.. Monaban had no contest: in that township. k Voliva Men Winners. The two Voliva candidates, Super-- visor Bert C. Thompson, and Assistant Supervisor Hans Dronen, went in with a plurality of 632 votes, getting 1895 to 12%63 against John, I. Johnson and Martin B. Reusch, : The vote is short of the usual Voliva. strength but is fairly well repres-- ented. The-- Indepondents pollied a trifie stronger than in the past.© 2 ty effort-- oft the farmers to traPD|" Hg is survived by his daughter, them. The.loss to -- local farmers Mrs. F. 0. nmun.z a brother, J0-- amounted to several thousands of seph Bacon and a sister, Mrs. Har-- dollare. * riet 'Spaulding, all of Waukegan. . e n n i agl us h:onl m;o:vll.h held from [ C the home at 2:30 o'clock Thursday reimForcements To SAIL. | h9 PORE "hev. . Harold Haggerty, Looadon, April &--mm mtoi.o't York m,fi.»l*'m\ h, ments, for the defence | and . Mr. Payfer and Rev. Me. forces "will sail from Southampton on | Lordahi, former pastors of this church April 12, aboard the City of Mar--| will officiate the funeral.' 'Interment seilles, according to present war of-- will be made in North Shore ceme-- Hoe plans. It is a good .indication _ that .the Voliva ticket in Zion will win over the W<um¢u»m-h,fll gress. The plan worked out well and for a long time the . thieves defied rry effort: otf the farmers to trap em. The. loss to local farmers amounted to several thousands of dollare. * Six Were Unopposed Through the county there were only six supervisore and assistants without opg-mu. They were: pervisor. B. F. Naber of Antioch. Supervisor William J. Obee and As-- sistant Supervisors Charles E. Har-- baugh and Willtam E. Bletsch of High-- Bupervisor H. C. W. Veyer, Mun-- township to--piace raoacs in other soo-- Bupervisor Edwin J, Morahon, Lake William Hale Thompsou who received a larger vota, than both of his Years in Prison. Chicago's Next Mayor BECTION TWO LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, IS -- HEAVY E. F. BACON, OLD -- COUNTY RESIDENT WAS PROMINENTLY KNOWN Waukegan, II!., April 6. E. P. Bacon, an old and prominent-- ly known resident of Lake county, passed away at his home on Green Bay road at 4:15 o'clock yesterday gfternoon after an extended illness due to heart trouble. He was born in Newport township in this county on July 8, 1865 and with the exception of about two years when he lo-o-( steaded a farm in Nchm bas always made his home in eon-{ ty. . * tas :. 4 He has been suffering with heart attacks for the past three years-- but his condition did not take a serious turn until about a month ago. _ He de-- clined steadily since that time until his death. v He resided in Newport township until 1890 when he left for Nebraska After spending several years in that state he returned to Waukegan in 1892. He married Miss Caroline Bur-- ris of Waukegan in the same year and took up M:';';iden_ce on the Bur-- ris farm west of the city on the Green Bay road. He has since resided on that farm. . He was active in the formation of the Lake County Farm Bureau and has been a factor in its maintenance. He was also a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Sons of Yeterans and the M. E. church.=*" .-- It was also charged that he had neglected the upper half of, Newport to get the strip of pavement to run Into Russell f & Previous to the election Martin had tried to counteract this by putting.up a heavy fight for paving of roule 173, the Zion--Rockford route. He was an old member of the toard. -- -- °... . _ i *o 60. 'mm"m"' 6t und Lake, swept everything Mfi a _Avo township where :.om estate dealer, of Round Lake. ... Brown carried the township with 308 votés getting 517 to Drummond's -- In Grayslake Brown. carried 830 to &5 while in the home viliage of Round Lake Brown received 177 and Drum-- mond 74. Brown has been on the board about 10 years. L .> =©._..~= > » '31. . In Lake Bluf Mawman won 152 to 123, nw:gmmn 104, and in Ed." Mawman A Winher AsSsictant Supervisor Edward. Maw-- man, Lake Bluff, the dniy manwith a contest in Shields township, carried over William Witt, North Ch'cago maru'acturer, 401 to 800.°-- <--~-- ~. TAKEN BY DEATH _ "BIG BILL BEATS H MAYOR DEVER BY _|s. --83,072 PLURALITY Chicago, April 6. --William Hale Thompson, Republican, will be the next I\uror of Chicago. Complete returns today show that he won over his Democratic opponent, Mayor Wii-- Ham E. Dever, in yesterday's ?merly contested election by a plurality of 83,.072 votes. -- » . Dr. John Dill Robertson, > former health commissioner, who ran on an Independent: Republican ticket, fin-- ished a poor third. Thompson's total vote--512,740--was -- more than the vote of Dever And Robertson com-- bined. Dever polied a total of 429,668 votes and Robertson 51,209. ~ JjJohn Dill Robertson, on the In-- _ The electionmin the main was quiet. Threatened bloodshed and rioting on & large scale failed to materialize. There were the usual shootings an sluggings, without which no Chicago gi'ttion is complete, but general riot-- as anticipated by city and county authorities, did not even threaten. ENDS SPIRITED CAMPAIGN -- Several reasons were advanced for the unusual calm that pervaded the voting places.. The police were bet-- ter organized than they hbhad ever been before. Back of them stood the threat of the National Guard. "The gangstera knew," one high official pointed out, "that they would be shown no quarter." He said he Blkved tbq,ttul shooting of Vincent ci, a powerful gang leader, by a police officer the day before election, was 'an excellent object lesson to gangland. _ s25. Nearly a million votes were cast-- 993.617 to be exact. This total was the largest by more than 200,000 ever polied in a Chicago municipal elec-- tion. It represented 87 .percent of the registration. _ & Mr. Thompson was twice mayor of Chicago, serving from 1915 to 1923. His return to power, after the bitter-- est campaign in the History of Chi-- euyelxo. was wildly celebrated over the 'The hilarity began shortly after 6 o'clock last night when it appeared certain that Thompson had been elect-- ed. They were still whoopiag it up ed. They were still whoopiok i1 up today. " In the first ecstacy of vic-- tory, Thompson's supporters paraded the night: -- -- * * 'The celebrating was .all good na-- tured, it appeared, no serious clashes being reported to police. In fact the told town that a few hours before wcnh}uflrmtufiotntm riot, 'was declared "quite sate". at midnight and all emergency bureau squads were ordered off duty. As soon as bhe learned definitely that he had won, Mr. Thompson gave out the following statement: < "f shall continue to work for the best interests of'. Chicage, for the lakes to the gulf waterway and for suppression of major crimes. --"NMo future draft for American boys ':":'. joining a league of nations of w s court, especially ~ with . the éovenant Wwhich provides that Unclg Sam shall have one vote and Great Britain seven, and which provides an dependent Ticket, Finished + ----~ a Poor Third. L025 ic t dn c Phscianct ic n ty h e dn in A C equal vote o:o:fl debtor nations, by which they call the roil and cancel our loaws. . The people _ of Americsa woud have to pay them." _ Mayor PDever commented as fol-- "I am perfectly satiefied now -tlhnt 15 WOil walle LL2H AAMIME . ME 7 ¥ Thompson's election was halled in Republican quarters as a party vie-- tory with wide national signiticance. Governor Le# Small, Senator Charles the people have made Thelr cn::x- I made the best fight possible under the circumstances and I bhope that all is well with this fime city." . _ ; Py CRREes . Aemieel mE es o 8. Deneen and otHer 'prominent Re-- publican leaders, formerly --at outs with the Thompson faction, came to his support on the eve Of the election. These leaders feared the election of Dever would strengthen the posi-- tion of George E. BtcnnnT Democra-- tic bose of lllinois and a| supporter of Governor Al Smith for the Demo-- cratic nomination in 1928. _Thompson adopted for his campaign slogan "America First.". He prom-- ised to-- revise school text books . to give 'George Washington and other American . revolutionary heroes more prominerice and to " eliminate para-- m: complimentary to King George a "' $ y a's #.0 _. wom the city. hall with negro poli and cresult. in a swelling Oof the Chicago negro population. . It m this issue that gave the campaign election their most dangerous as-- "m'fup(og probably will asstme office before May 1. The Jaw pro vides that retiring city officials shall turn over their _o_f!;h' 1 > records "within five days after the certif-- lcate of election iisues." * Dever talked "dry law enforcement," | . In' the closing days of the cam], . '"htth.mtoltmme dominant issue. . Dever's supportflx ' oi nmiels Apam) " w e --city. hal negro 'flhfl and <result. in a swelling of the Chicago negro population. . It m this issue that gave the campaign | / élection their most dangerous as--| 81 m J L »_ T AL us w usee '-;V--. :f . Mayor Dever ran on ~his record, pleading for "decency'" and."law en-- forcement." . Both candidates . were "wet,".but Thompson said he was as "wet as the Atlantic Ocean" whereas Dever talked "dry law enforcement." "In the closing days of 'the cam: Springficld, HL., April <6--J.~Emil Smith : was closen mayor.of Spring-- field at yesterday's election by & Canvass of the vote was expected to begin Saturday and the-- election commission . will certify the result to the city clerk who --will jssue cer-- titicates of election. » SMITH WINS FOR MAYOR of fhearly 18,000. -- His op-- up a continual how! thru \G 3x STLL CHECKING IN HIGHWOOD SHORT AGE Reports from Mr, Lytle's office of the North Shore Line in Chicago.to-- day stated that the authorities are still working on their check up of the alleged $12,000 shortage in the rail-- road'6 station at Highwood. City Marshal J. C. Frime of Highwood declared that there was no further policé work on the case and the Line With the organization of the county board set for the early part of May supervisors in the townships over the county today began planning on the election of a chairman. ag385 . has taken no further action other than continuing with the audit which, to date, has developed nothing out of the ordinary. FIGHT EXPECTED ON CHAIRMANSHIP _ OF SUPERVISORS The contest this year may develop a real fight. Supervisor Bert C€. Thompson, 14 years a board member, has announced himselt as a candi-- date. He is the only one who has -poumn for the* post to succeed Pad-- d § Dilger Faction Probably Will Seek to Name Its Candidate; With the defeat of Bairstow the complexion of <things have changed. Pairstow was a Paddock endorsee, no'l:on voted with Bairstow a year ago and threw the Benton township MAY DEVELOP BATTLE The Dilger faction, which included the combine of assistants--from Wau-- kegan with the exception of Frank Cory, has been enriched in power by the Bairstow debacle. While it has never deived deeply into politics on the board it will probably have much to say in the naiming of chairman. -- This action can be expected due to the defeat of Dilger for chairman a year ago. i * Reges: To red ago and threw the Benton township forces with him. h. unty 5o o ies tion yesterday, might annoufice kt{/n-- N(Mloh:fifl__wuu:i There are several likely candidates who may prociaim their causes within the next few days. Supervisor .William J. Obee, High land Park, who met with no oppoyy tain, ~Both had contests. They gave their full time to the campaign and it um precedent that a~gandi-- date muld refrain from campaigning on the board while seeking votes from from his mind. MASS 3RD MARINES TO GO TO PEKING San Diego, Cal., April 6.--With the Sixth Marine regiment ready to sail to .Shanghai tomorrow, the Third regiment of Marines was mobilizing here today. The third, it was said, will go to. Peking, instead of Shang-- Willis J. Spaulding, Harry . B. Luers --and Charlés <--H. Wood ~were re--elected commissioners, while Jo-- seph M. Figueria will succeed Lioyd D. Davis, present commissioner of Trains bringing additional detach-- ments of Marines for the third are now en route <from New Orleans and Norfolk, Va. Contingents from Mare Ilsland and Puget .Sound aAarso now on hand. ind FRANK DOYLE ELECTED East St. Louis, D1., Aprit 6.--Frank Doyle was elected mayor of East St. Louts by a margin of 936 votes in a total of more than 22,000 cast over M. L. Harris, a count of the complete vote today showed. Doyle will succeed Mayor M. M. Stephens, who has officlated in th@t capacity for 22 years,. _ -- ~ 'Albert P.. Lauman, John J. Halli-- han, --Herman E. Zierrath and John T.-- Connors were elected: commisg-- 1,686 votes. ponent, Frank. L. Wright, polied only public safety. DANVILLE HAS HOT FIGHT Danville, Ill., <April 5.--Danville's first city election under the commis-- siolt form:of government drew & combined vote" of more than . 10,000 ballots, the largest in Danvilie's bis-- tory. f * . Henry Sulce, an auto repairman, defeated William Lewman, & &roG@r, for mayor by 307 votes,. The first sloners. four commissionerws are Wm,. C. Kmluhg present city. clerk; --Co-- lumbus atz, a grocer, . William Sheets, a general contractor, and Walter Smith, former superintendent of 'the Chicago and Eastern Illinois ~A -- --nroanosition© to issue .Sond. for <A proposition: to issue .bonds additional ~paved highways . Car as' did--~the proposition ¢o pet boxing, the latter winning five That-- Dilger,; or Jack Hoban, Wau-- wan. may. seek the post is uncer-- Thompson Announced. Supervisor Winner: JURY REFUSES 1O ALLOW ANY CLAIM -- IN $10,000 SUI Finds For J. R. Williamson, De-- fendant, in $10,000 Claim-- For Accident Damages. A Waukegan, IH!., April 6. After-- deliberating four hours & circuit court jury late yesterday de-- cided that Aryum Adalman, 7, of Chi-- ARF. 'He still, it was argued, walked in his gleep and had physical ailments. Ite was thrown against the top of the car in the crash. . -- -- --'GETS SIX MONTHS John Jones, formerly of Zien, who runs a roadhouse just over the state line in Wisconsin, this morning ° in federal court in Milwaukee pleaded guilty to selling whiskey and was sentenced to serve six months in the house of correction. BERT C. THOMPSON OF ZION In The County EDW. BRLWN OF AVON DEFEATED:; KILLS SELF OUT FOUR HOURS $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE But three new faces will make up the county board of supervisors. The defeated, Supervisor George Bair-- stow, Supervisor Edward Martin, Newport, and Assistant Supervisor Dave Hutton, Waukegan, will be re-- placed by Matt Dilger, Dave Van Patten, Frank Worack and Dan Short. There were ten places fought for at the polis. Dilger is an assist-- ant supervisor at present. Those reelected for a two year term were: Antioch--B. F. Nabor of Antioch. Deerfield--Wm. J. Obee, Charles Harbaugh and William E. Bletsch, all of Highlard Park. The personnel of the new board is as follows: Fremont--H. C. W. Meyer of Mun-- delein. _ Shields--Edward Monahan, lT--ake Forest, and Edward Mawman, Lake Bluff. t Avon--E A. Brown, Round Lake. Newport--Dave YVan Patten, Rus-- sell. -- Benton--Bert C. Thompson -- and Hans Dronen, both of Zion. Waukegan--Matt Dilger, Jack Ho-- ban, Frank Worack and Dan Short, Waukegan. The holdovers on the board are: Benton--C. E. Austin of Zion. Deerfield--J. B. Garnett and A. W, Vercoe, Highland Park. Ela--Emil Ficke, Lake Zurich. . Grant--Frank Stanton, Ingleside. vLch,e Villa--Harry Stratton, Lake Libertyville--C. W. Wilcox, Liber-- tyville. o ~Shields--Thomas.V. Murphy, Wau-- kegan road. # ts SUPERVISORS TO HAVE THREE NEW _ FACES ON BOARD Dilger Already a Member, But Van Patten, Worack and :« Short Are the New Ones. plained to the Waukegan police this afterndon that he has been rooked out of $1,000 in cash by bogus federal agents and asked protection from the same agents, who, be claims, have threatened to make another visit to his place this afternoon for an ad-- ditional $500. Lamovec came into the police sta-- tion this afternoon and deciared 'that a few days ago two men, driving an old Ford touring car and both carry-- ing guns and wearing.stars, appeared at his door and told him they were federal agents. They entered ~his home, he claims, and after asking him how much he had, declated they would not be satisfied with the $408 he had on hand, but accompanied him to the bank where he drew an add+é tional $600. Lamovee declared that WILL _ MEET -- N_ MAY Policeman George Heckinger Aand spoke to him, but because the man had a gun against his ribs, through his pocket, he was afraid to call the policeman. --The man told the police that after leaving. the bank, the "agents" re-- turned to his home where they took the $600, pushed him around, threat-- ened him, and frightened his wife. ----"They 'called up this afternoon," 'Baid Lamovec, "and wanted me to bring $500 to Chicago. I said I didn't hbave it, and .they said they would come out to Waukegan and get it. My wife has left home. She is afraid she will be shot. T told the sheriff and when I called up home she had already left." ~-- Iamovee asked police protection as he is afraid that the agents will do him bodily harm 'when they come out again this afternoon. -- Policeman Ben True accompanied the man to his London, April 6.--Duna Singh, chief of the Indian police in Shanghai, has been assassinated <'by an unem-- ployed watchman, according to a Cen-- tral News digpatch from. Shanghai. The assassin was arrested. WIFE -- HAS LEFT HOME Pleasant Prairie, Wis., and a woman claiming to be his wife, were at lib-- erty on bonds today after being ar-- rested 'on bigamy charges preferreq by-- Mrs. Augusta Dryz, who led a raid on their hotel room. Shields--James Kelly, Lake For-- John LAmovec, HINDU ASSASSINATED FREED ON BONDS rau----Harold Potter, Ira W. . Frank: Burke and Fred Waukegan, 111. April 6. OUT OF $1,000 James O'Conner, > Ago -- k :,1"_'«2 E4