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WATERS RISE AS MORE RESERVOIRS BREAK .BUSINESS SECTION OF DAYTON BURNS MEN PLEAD FOR RESCUE OF WOMEN. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N..d: Cochran,, v gj v-OQ 500 South' Peoria St Editor and Poblisher. ,fyjgdaa Tel.;Monroe 353. VOL. 2,0. 152 ; Chicago, Thursday, March 27, 1913 - ONE' CENT, police obey ordersand stop sale of the :da y:bqok 6 stands of chic Ago 'Circulation Manager- and Newsboys Arrestee! Mayor : Harrison Issues Order Restoring The Day Bopk to Neys Stands A Day Book Man Slugged. " The loop police obeyed orders yesterday and tried to prevent the sale of The Day Book oh newspaper stands, and thus suppress f ree speech and a free press in Chicago. They kept The Day Book off of some stands because the boys were afraid to disobey police orders; and thus prevented the-boys from supplying the public-demand for f earless newspaper i , .They arrested the circulation manager of The Day Book, and one newsboy for selling copies of The Day Booki near newspaper stands where the owners refused fo dis play The Day Book for sale. The policeman who arrested The Day Book circu lation 'manager and took him to the "station in a patrol wagon, also struck him on the head and handled him roughly. ' , When the circulation manager told an assistant to take apoliceman's number, that policeman grabbed the assistant on the charge of taking his number. Before being :bqbked, the circulation manager and the-, jiewsb6y?$vho.hadZbeeti, hauled to -the police station