Chicago's Fair

STATES & CITIES

A threatening sky greyed the waters of Lake Michigan last week while Rufus Cutler Dawes stood on the cindery greensward of Grant Park, Chicago, and received formal, oratorical permission "on behalf of President Kelly and the members of the South Park Commission" for what he was about to do. Then he climbed to the cab of a steamshovel which was there, pulled its control lever. Down rattled the shovel's maw, dug dirt and, snorting, spat it aside. Ground was thus broken for the administration building of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition, the 1933 World's Fair, by its president.

Five thousand miles away Mr. Dawes's brother Charles, the staccato-voiced Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, began packing his trunks. He had obtained leave to return (sailing June 7) to Chicago for the purpose of erecting a suitable financial structure for the Fair.

In the U. S. House of Representatives Chicago's Congressman Carl Richard Chindblom offered a resolution asking President Hoover to appoint a commission to determine the Government's participation in the Fair.

In Chicago, President Edward Joseph Kelly and five members of his South Park Commission were indicted last week for conspiring to defraud the Sanitary District of $5,000,000 in public monies.

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