ILLINOIS: Assistant Americans

Two years ago when Illinois' Democratic Governor Henry Horner advanced his feud with Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly by a State law requiring the permanent registration of voters, many and loud were reformers' predictions of what the Chicago voting lists would reveal. Last week the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners, which has been investigating the lists for a year, made one highly interesting revelation: that 150,000 of the county's 2,000,000 enrolled voters are not U. S. citizens.

Board Member Harry A. Lipsky hastened to forestall criticism by affirming that...

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