CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF DEPOSED.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1927, Page 4

CHICAGO POLICE CHIEF DEPOSED.

CHICAGO, May 30. When William Hale Thompson, better known to his familiars and the electorate as ‘‘Big Bill.” was conducting his mayoralty campaign in Chicago this spring ho interspersed his vinification of everything British with promise that if elected to the chief magistracy of the second city in the United States he would put an end to the wave of crime that has besmirched Chicago’s name and has been something of a nightmare to its 3,000,000 or more citizens. It was largely because of this promise of Thompson, together with his jocular statement that there would be no more “fanning of mattresses and frisking of pantries for pints of whisky” by his police force, that he succeeded in winning the election. But Thompson has now occupied the mayor's chair for more than a mouth and Chicago, unhappily, remains the most notoriously crime-in-fested city in the United States. Ji still maintains its average of approximately one murder each 24 hours. Mayor Thompson pledged his word to remedy this criminal situation the moment he assumed office. Instead, lie went on a cruise down file Mississippi to New Orleans to recuperate from the arduous duties of his political campaign. About the only action he has taken to end crime in Chicago has been to force the resignation of llie former chief ol police and appoint in his stead one Michael Hughes, a chief of detectives out of favour during the previous adminis-

tration. MEW CHIEF’S OUDEBS. Hughes, having shifted his men around, addressed a series of orders to the city's police captains. He told them : “Stop kicking in doors of homes, soft-drink parlours and poolrooms and go after the criminals. The policeman’s job is to .catch thieves and thugs. It isn’t how many people you arrest that counts, but the kind you arrest.” A committee of the Board of Education is now taking evidence to determine the troth of Thompson’s charge that the text hooks in use in the Chicago schools are pro-British in tenor and falsify historical tacts regarding the American revolution. Mayor Thompson still insists that treason has been insidiously injected, thus bringing about disloyalty in the Chicago schools, and that “the schools are in the hands of a bunch of highbrow pro-Britishers who are teaching the kiddies that the King was out test friend.”