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Show no police head IS TOLD 10 RESIGN Statement Issued by Mayor When Chief's Trial Is Delayed. CHICAGO, Dec, 9. Almost simultaneously simultane-ously with a new oid'r from Chief of Police Charles C. Healey to enforce vigorously vig-orously t lie Sunday closing law came the admission from Mayor Thompson tolay that the chief of police would resign. The new order instructed ai! policemen to arresi violators on siht and book them at the police stations. Heretofore saloonkeepers saloon-keepers who did not obey the law were arrested Inter on warrants or punished by revocation of their licenses, which in many cases were subsequently restored. The order for general Sunday closing issued more tnan a year ago has been the source of continuous dissension between Mayor Thompson, a Republican, and Maciav Hovne, Democratic state's attorney. attor-ney. "Chief Healey's resignation Is attributed at-tributed indirectly to the clashes between the state and city forces. f'-aloonkecpers who were arrested on warrants after the closing order had been t issued by Mayor Thompson were promptly Jr freed by Juries. Criticism was made by w city officials that the cases were not prosecuted by assistant state's attorneys with sufficient vigor and the revocation power in the hands of the mayor was used as a weapon to enforce the law. Hoyne adherents then brought the charge that the mavnr was using this power to reward favorites and to build for himself him-self a political machine. Recently, after a sensational raid by Hovne on the city hall for documentary evidence. Chief Healey and hJs secretary were indicted. In announcing the chiefs imminent resignation Mavor Thompson declared Healey's inability to obtain an immediate trial on the indictments was the reason he would leave the department. Chief Healey had not announced his resignation tonight, but said the question was en- , tirely in the hands of the mayor. I Major General Thomas H. Barry of the I United States army, stationed here, was: mentioned as a possible successor to j Healey if he could obtain leave of ab- I eence from the war department. I |