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...epithets loud-yawping Mayor William Hale Thompson and publicity-crazed Municipal Judge John Homer Lyle belabored each other last week in the final round of their fight for the Republican nomination to be Mayor of Chicago. The primary election was to be held Feb. 24, their battleground was the Loop, their prize the honor of being the city's First Citizen during the Century of Progress (1933). Their hooligan antics, their vulgar language blanketed other reasonable is sues, obscured other candidates...
...large sugar-beet estate near Magdeburg, Dr. Browne saw one of Germany's most famed dowsers at work. Covering his chest with a padded leather jacket, the dowser took in his hands a looped steel divining rod, began to pace the ground. Suddenly the loop shot upward, hit him a hard blow on the chest. Continuing, he charted the outlines of the underground stream. Then using an aluminum rod, which he said was much more sensitive, he estimated the depth of the stream. A rod of still another metal indicated by a chest blow that the water was good...
...cities the troublesome problem of parking continues to be irritating. The past year has shown no change comparable to the prohibition of parking which took place in the Chicago loop district in the preceding year and which is still in force. There has been, however, a definite development of business facts on parking conditions and a change in attitude which will make possible more accurate restrictions and regulations in the future...
...Chicago's opera affairs are not in a happy state. Sopranos Rosa Raisa, Claudia Muzio, Lotte Lehmann, Frida Leider have been giving capable performances. But despite expectations the pretentious new house has not proved popular. Beauty is widely conceded to the building. On the northwest edge of the Loop, it rises from the murky Chicago River directly across from the unquestionably beautiful Chicago Daily News Building & Plaza. But the acoustics are not yet so good as in the famed old Auditorium. And it contains, apparently, a grave psychological error: In placing the boxes the architect seems to have forgotten...
Acting Police Commissioner John H. Alcock last week summoned, to a cooperation meeting at the University of Chicago, all police officials presiding within a radius of 50 mi. of the Loop...