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ASSISTANT SURGEON GENERAL RUCKER GIVES SOME TIPS FOR BABIES' BENEFIT THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher, 398 500 South Peoria St. Tel. Monroe 353. VOL.2.-N0.243 Chicago, Monday, July 14, 1913 ONE CENT; MAX ANNENBERG IN PANIC OF FEAR SHOOTS INNOCENT BYSTANDER Cowardice of Tribune's Circulation Manager and Strike' breaker May Bring Fatal End to Auto Night Riding. Because Max Annenberg, strike breaker, slugger and circulation manager of .The Tribune, is also a coward, Alexander Belford, 23 years old, is lying near to death in the County Hospital today. And because Max Annenberg is a good strikebreaker, slugger and cir culation manager, that great news paper, The Chicago Daily Tribune, pulled every wire in the Invisible Government of Chicago for thirty-six hours to save Annenberg from arrest for shooting Belford. Annenberg shot and wounded Bel ford in the left lung at 12:18 o'clock Sunday morning on the corner of Maxwell and Halsted streets. Annenberg, when he did the shoot ing, was in his private automobile surrounded by Tribune sluggers, photographers and a reporter. Bel ford was standing on the sidewalk, with his chum and roommate, Louis Sallin. Annenberg never saw Belford be fore that moment; Belford never had seen Annenberg. Annenberg had no grudge against Belford; Belford had shown no animosity toward him, had not tried in any way to harm him. Annenberg had no reason in the world for shooting Belford. Annenberg shot and perhaps fatal ly wounded Belford because he was in a panic of white-livered fear brought on by his own guilty con science, and because he held ready in his hand the revolver supplied him by his protector and employer, The Chicago Daily Tribune. The shooting immediately follow ed a wild expedition of Tribune em ployer, photographers, a reporter, and sluggers to the West Side to get a picture to go with a gambling story. This is the story of how the shoot ing occurred. The Tribune wanted a sensational flashlight picture to go with a gam bling story. Orders as to the kind of picture