Show HUSHES SERVED P POLICE 31 1 YEARS I AP CHICAGO uly 26 Thirty AP-Thirty- one years of stormy service on ChIcago's poll police co force fOIce has been the experience of Michael l who resigned esterday as MI Mayor or commIssioner of From the time Hughes JOined the force In 1897 and wag assIgned to the stockyards ards back o 0 the yards ards until April 1927 when he vas named chief ot police his ca- ca reer has been dotted with promotions promo promo- one demotion and a or more threatened resignations on hIs part On the side where he first hit th the bad lands of the city Hughes gained a as a and thief catcher After nine ears Its the tha stockyards district dis- dis he became a detective sergeant cant By 1918 1018 ho he had reached the of temporary lI lieutenant in the lIe lIe- bureau and gained a permanent permanent per per- manent lieutenancy he captured cap cap- John I 3 auto uto bandit and escaped convict When Charles C. C ws made chief of police by Mayor laor Thompson In 1920 1520 he named Hughes Hug chit chief of detectives with blunt Instructions to clean up the city Mayor l Dover Dever however In hi 1923 1023 demoted Hughes from chief of detectives detectives de- de to captain at a north side station Hughes quit at once called the department rotten hut was persuaded to withdraw v hi Isis resignation resI- resI nation and tal take e a leave of absence Back on the tho force he raIded liduor resorts zealously 1 Early last year ear he was as named chief or of hIghway highway high high- way police by Sheriff Charles GraYdon and climaxed his record three months l later tel when Mayor Thompson named him chief ot of police police po- po lice and called hint hIm the thief catcher in the world CHICAGO July 2 20 M AP-M Thompson tod today y named D Commissioner William F. F Russell as the new commIssioner of police succeeding Michael Hughes whose resI resignation nation was announced yester- yester da day The Is effective AUgust I 1 when Russell will decide whether to take tak the post p permanent permanent- I ly Until then h hO is acting com com- missioner |