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Show CLEANUP CAMPAIGN IS ONJHIIIHO That Police Department Is in Collusion With Crooks Belief of Mayor CHICAGO Dec IS The f rst step 11 a campa gn to c ean up the Oh ago police department wh ch he de Ured was honevcoinbel w th graft and .ro tect on for cr n nals was taken toda fcy Mayo Thon psou He ailed into onferen e the ch ef of police the ass stant eh et ad the pree dent of the c tj c v 1 ser ce com miss on After the conference the mayor sa d that both he and the hiet of pol ce were conv need that there was coll s on between the pol ce department and the crooks of Ch ago and that r m nals were be ng protected 4s soon as we f nd out where the protect on s con ng fron sa d the mayor we are going to clean up the department As to plots with n the department to murder ts own members continued the mayor I can only say that rmir ders of policen en have been numerous of late and that James M tchell, the part ner of Policeman Burke the latest vie tun, v.as murdered a month ago and probably bv the same persons who killed Burke Captain John J Halp n former chief of detect ves found gu lty of accepting br bes to protect swindl ng seers, was den ed a new trial by Judge Baldwin in the circuit court today |