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Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 15

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Herald and Reviewi
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Decatur, Illinois
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15
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rveanesday, January iu, j.0. Page fourteen GOVERNOR ORDERS STATE POLICE TO HALT MLKWARJVIOLENCE St i ft 30 9 -J 71 I "'J 'WM in federal court restraining officials and members of the Pure Milk association from interfering with milk shipments by the Economy Dairy an independent concern. Regular shipments of milk into Chicago by airplane were started, with police guarding the arriving milk at the airport. PICKETS BLOCKADE ROAD IN MILK WAR This photo shows pickets guarding steel-toothed drags placed on highway 41, on the Illinois-Wisconsin state line, as part of the activities in preventing milk supplies from reaching Chicago. A temporary injunction was granted Tuesday DUMP MILK IN CHICAGO Farm pickets are shown dumping milk from a truck near the city limits of Chicago.

The milk strike has grown to such large proportions that the only milk being passed into the city is for hospitals and emergency milk for children. Thousands of families are without milk, and some hotels and restaurants were serving only small quantities. decrease of the city's milk supply to 95 per cent of the normal quota in a milk strike which rapidly assumes formidable aspects. Governor Horner has ordered state highway police to prevent the halting of trucks and dumping of milk along the highways in the strike area. MILK TRUCK SUNK IN CHICAGO RIVER This was the fate of a truck of the Palmer Square Dairy seized by pickets and sunk in the Chicago river at Sunnyside avenue.

Acts of violence, like this, in Chicago's streets, mark the effectual FIRST SOVIET AMBASSADOR AR ton, are: Robert F. Kelley, chief of Eastern Eurqpean affairs of the state department, Boris Skvirsky, charge d' affaires, of the Russion embassy. Ambassador Alexander A. Troyanovsky and Jefferson Patterson, chief of the protocol division of the state CALLED AN UNFIT MOTHER Mrs. Margaret Willits, wife of John McGregor Willits, Chicago insurance broker, who obtained a divorce from him last November was called an unfit mother in the superior court by her former husband who petitioned the court to give him the custody of his two children who the court had allowed in his wife's custody when she had obtained her divorce.

BIG FIRE TIES UP TRAFFIC Scene of a large fire on State street in Chicago which destroyed several hundred thousand dollars of property and auto accessories and tied up traffic from the loop to the south-side of the city for several hours. Four hundred firemen and a big part of the Chi cago fire department were called to battle the blaze. The rapidly spreading blaze, carried on a whipping west wind, attacked nearby buildings. Fire officials are investigating to determine whether there is a connection between the fire and attempts of police to break up an auto theft ring. RIVES IN WASHINGTON Alexander A Troyanovsky, first Soviet ambassador to the United States, arrives in Washington to assume his duties as representative of the government at Moscow.

Left to right in this group at the Union station in Washing Aiia f.v'ifl' Xrfr -I HUSBAND ON TRIAL FOR KIDNAPING Mrs. AKl'R VOMAN'S AMATEUR CUt TITLE Mrs. Irene Humel of New York, eastern champion, at left, Mrs. Gertrude Baker McEvoy, of New York, natlrral amateur pocket billiard champion, and Miss Georgia Veatch, Chicago school teacher and wcb.t-rn -hampion will play for the national title in the women's national pocket billiards tournament now in prcrcFs in Chicago. Charles McElligott is doing the umpiring while Miss' Gene Gayle of Chicago, director in the Billiard association, is in charge.

PLAN ROOSEVELT BALL Chicago leaders have started plans for the President Roosevelt birthday ball to be held in Chicago on Jan. 30 to benefit the Warm Springs, foundation. Left to right, seated, former Vice President Charles G. Dawes; Col lector of Internal revenue, Carter H. Harrison; Mrs.

Ernest Graham, Chicago society leader; Charles S. Peterson, Chicago businessman; Earnest Kruetgen, Chicago postmaster. Standing, left to right, Andy Rebori, Robert Carr, James McCahey and John Root. Frank Souder, is shown as she apr in the Chicago criminal court where her husband, Frank Souder, is on trial charged with the kidnaping of James Hackctt of Blue Island and having released him after payment of $1,500 ransom. Gail Swolley also is facing trial on the same charge..

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