Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1932, Page 10

THE ININE WAGE FIGHT T0 Bt PROSECUTOR Chicago Race Overshadows Many-Sided Gubernatorial Contest in lllinois. SUNDAY STAR. Debates Abroad MEMBER OF U. S. TEAM GOING 'TO ENGLAND. WASHINGTON, D. (. APKIlL 3. e PALAIS ROYAL ELEVENTH AND G STREETS N.W. TELEPHONE DISTRICT 4400 Woven awning-stripe coverings! All-cotton filling! Noiseless ball bearing! Lawn Gliders with Metal Arms DART ONE. * k Kk k k k k & CHICAGO, April 2.—Three men fa- mous in Tllinois legal ranks and a half dozen other figures in politics are bat- tling for the job of State's attorney in Cook County —a race which over- shadows in public interest here even the | many-sided contest for gubernatorial | | nominations. |. Two of the candidates, one Repub- lican and one Democrat, will be nomi- nated in the primary on April 12 to oppose each other in next November's | election. In the meantime, charges and counter charges are flying thick and fast to keep the fight the hottest | in the State election campaign. The post, which carries with it leadership | in Chicago's battle aeainst - gangsters and other criminals, is almost constant- ly in the glare of publicity. Rival Republicans. Aligned against each other on the Republican side are John A. Swanson, present State’s attorney: Municipal Judge John H. Lyle, the aggressive jurist who directed the now famous campaign sgainst Chicago’s “public enemies,” and Judge Michael J. Fein- Of Pensacola, Fla. berg, investigator of bank closings in facon Women Chicago. is a memby Seldom since William McSwiggin was cbating team which will tour machine-gunned to death in 1926 has |England in April and May.—A. P. Photo the State’s attorney's office been such T a focal point of public interes! ENGAGEMENT DENIED against crime. Feinberg has promised BY NANCY MEYR|CK aggressive prosecution of bank cases — - Lyle has pledged himself to “clean out the gansters” if he is elected, and has intimated that Swanson gave him and his present investigations have TS been denounced by Lyle as contrary Daughter of Night Club Queen to public interest A marvelous glider for the money! Noiseless, ball-bearing construction, with double chain sus- pension to minimize sidesway. De luxe metal arms—strong enough to hold the weight of a per- finished ine Du Pont weatherproof IFull size. RO! COX RUSSELL a senior at Ran- College, Lynch- | the interna- | son—are enamel. Floor Palais Royal—Fourth insufficient help in his previous drive | will appear in PICTURES—just like your favorite Grandstanding is Charged. As for Swanson, he has referred caustically to the campaigns of his two opponents as “grandstanding.” has promised to continue administration of the prosecutor’s office efficiently and economically. Six _candidates are campaigning for the Democratic nomi- nation. They are Thomas J. Courtney, at present a State Senator; Barratt O'Hara, widely known as defense attorney in several murder cases: Benjamin Nelson, Richsrd H. Devine. Louis P, O'Connell and Matthew D. Hartigan. INDIANA WOMAN HELD IN HUSBAND'S SLAYING Questioned About Insurance Pol- icy, but Denies Intimacy With Hunted Youth. By the Associated Press, EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 2.—Mrs. Edith Johnson, 31, was held on & tech- | Spikes Rumor She'll Wed Titled Briton. By Lhe Associated Press LONDON, April 2—Nancy Meyrick, | daughter of Kate Meyrick, “queen of the night clubs,” vesterday denied a newspaper report that she was engaged to Charlie S. Fitzoy, heir to Lord Southampton. “Mr. Fitzroy and I are just friends, nothing else,” she said The oldest daughter of Mrs. Meyrick | was matried to the Earl of Kinnoull in | 1928, and her second Dorothy Evelyn, known to her friends of the night club where she was a hostess as Dolly, mar- | ried Lord de Clitford in 1926 | Mrs. Meyrick herself first came to international attention in 1927, when | the police raided her night b, and from that time on until last year her | tangles with the law were rather fre- | quent. She was jailed for various pe- | riods, usually for Violation of the liquor and curfew laws. Before she was released from prison 1 gal. SPAR VARNISH Through Co-operation of 7.50 value! service for 8! 53-pc. Porcelain Bird Baths 2.39 Tall and geaceful, to charm your gardea and vour feathered friends. Guaranteed water and weatherproof. 19-in, di- ameter, 23 ins. tall. Mail and phone orders filled. 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