Show iT AUTHORITIES MAKE MOVE TO AID TEACHERS Started to Force Campaign Payment of Delinquent c Chicago Taxes t y 4 B By ny United Press Pru CHICAGO April 27 Beleaguered 21 city and school authorities today Inaugurated In a legislative campaign to force payment of ot delinquent taxes in hopes that sufficient cash may be obtained to pay owed Chicago teachers in back salaries Heartened by the efforts in in their behalf teachers who yesterday were bea beaten ten by police as they stormed two loop banks announced that further demonstrations had been temporarily abandoned At the same ame time the board of education edu cation postponed for two weeks a n vote on a resolution to close schools May 12 and not reopen them until October r 1 A favorable vote on the resolution would give Chicago's half haU million pupils an additional nine weeks weeks' vacation and save in salaries Mayor Edward J. J Kelly KeIly led a de dele delegation e gation gatlon of aldermen and school trustees trustees trus tees to Springfield to lobby for legis legislation lation designed to put teeth in tax collection laws Special police patrols swung night nightsticks nightsticks nightsticks sticks freely yesterday as teachers shouting houtIng jeering and booing inv invaded d. d ed cd the Chicago Title and Trust company com corn pany and the First National bank Several persons were felled and five women fainted None was hurt se see se- se After disorder at the banks one delegation of teachers marched to the board of education meeting to hear the vote on the closing proposal and another trooped to a meeting of or orthe the city council Unpaid Teacher Teach r Commits Suicide I CHICAGO April 27 UP Paul UP-Paul Paul Schneider 44 44 manual training teacher teach teach- er in the Chicago public schools who had been without pay since last July today shot himself to death in his I home The story of the tragedy was revealed revealed re re- re by his wife wile and three young daughters in the home on which taxes are arc long past due duo My husband had been worried sick for months said Mr Schneider He taught manual training at Washburn Washburn Washburn Wash- Wash II burn school which is in one of the cit city's s poorest districts He had had i no pay since last July and it was getting get ting harder and harder to make both ends meet He was actually ill Il with worry This morning he rose early and i went to the basement A short time tune later we heard a shot I rushed to the basement and found he had shot himself with a 38 caliber revolver Schneider had three daughters Evel Evelyn 15 and Gertrude and Dolores Do lores year old twins |