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When Chicago's Police Commissioner William F. Russell resigned following the murder of the Tribune's newsgatherer Alfred ("Jake") Lingle (TIME, June 23), he left his position to Deputy Commissioner John H. Alcock. While Chicago waited, Mayor William Hale Thompson allowed this half-appointment to dangle almost a week without official recognizance, then suddenly issued a statement: "Alcock . . . desired to retain his. . . standing as First Deputy Commissioner in lieu of being appointed by me as Commissioner of Police. . . . My instruction to him is: drive the crooks and gangsters out of Chicago...
...Great Lakes Naval Station band (Lingle had served in the Navy intelligence service), an American Legion firing squad, four American Legion posts in uniform, Police Commissioner Russell, Detective Chief Stege and many another city official and magistrate whom Lingle had known well. Only conspicuous absentee was Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, whose ineptitude as the city's leader has for so long been so apparent that he now figures scarcely at all in Chicago affairs...
...hale Hoke Smith, felicitations and an apology for prereporting his demise...
...Ruth Hale, head of the Lucy Stone League, recently made the following statement: "Unless man recedes from his present position to readjust life on the basis of sex equality of might, he will be completely overcome.... Our fight is already won. Very soon the enemy will find himself prone with the steel at his throat...Procreation, the power to reproduce the human species, is the world's most potent power, and it is 75 percent women...
...document was officially before the Foreign Relations Committee where a friendly attitude toward it was manifested by members, including Pennsylvania's Senator Reed and Arkansas' Senator Robinson, both delegates to the London parley. The Naval Affairs Committee, under the nervous leadership of Maine's Senator Hale, conducted hearings in an atmosphere hostile to the agreement which was, under the Senate rules, none of its official business. Senator Hale, a big Navy man, did everything possible to develop the worst features of the treaty as a means of drumming up public opposition to its restrictive provisions...