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p:!fP&&?p!pVMai& LAST EDITION LAST EDITION RECEIVER ASKED FOR LORIMER'S BANKS BY LUCEY PREDICT BIG STRIKE IN BUTTE, MONT.- MINERS READY Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postoffice at" Chicago, m., Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Dcdly Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, gsBBEB Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. lliP By Mail, Except, in 500 South Peoria St. 398 Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL.3, NO. 222 Chicago, Thursday, June 18, 1914 ONE CENT DEPARTMENT STORES WALLOPED BY DECISION OF SUPREME COURT i Illinois Bench Upholds City Ordinance Prohibiting Sub Basement Mandel Bros, and Marshall Field i Hit Court Points to Fire Danger, 4 Mandel Brothers' department store on State street is running a "sec ond basement" salesro'om which is a firetrap, and the customers who buy there and the clerks and cash boys who work there are taking a risk for bidden by a valid ordinance of the city of Chicago. This is what the Hlintois Supreme Court holds in an opinion which came today to Leon Hornstein, assistant corporation counsel. Marshall Field & Company, who announced they would build, dig, equip, start second basement salesrooms when the plans were before city council committees, must abandon their plans. It will take about four months for a petition for rehearing and other proceedings before the Supreme Court. During this time Mandel Brothers will have a right to run their second basement salesroom. In the rtfean time, the opinion of city officials is,, .that fire danger and health, menace is maintained through the operation of such aBupway. , ,