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SwSEKSSf ' . ' ' H LAST EDITION " CLAIM LAKE BOATS ARE FLOATING BARS GAMBLING OPEN LAST EDITION DETECTIVE BURNS ATTACKED BY MRS. CARMAN Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postoffice a Chicago, EL, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, -fSx. TeI Monroe 353- Editor and Publisher. HgUP By Mail, Except in ,500 South Peoria St. 398 Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL.3, NO. 247 Chicago, Saturday, July 18, 1914 ONE CENT GLEASON TO MAKE SEVERAL RAIDS -BIG POLICE SHAKE-UP COMING Killing of Detective Birns Leads to City-Wide War on Vice Meagher to Get Ryan's Place, Is Report Gleason, Peeved at Morals Squad, Will Act. Many things promise to result from the hair-tngger gunplay started by members of the morals squad in the South Side levee Thursday night. Chief Gleason is still angry over the killing of Detective Sergeant Stanley Birns in a manner that has made the" entire city disgusted 'with the affair. As a first move Chief Gleason has decided to take from the morals squad the exclusive privilege of ex perimenting with vice in Chicago and has decided to start a campaign of his own. Several squads will be formed and they will comb the city. It is even promised that for the first time the raids oft he police will not be con fined to the 22d street district, but will extend from the badlands of 63d street to "Little Paris," out around Wilson avenue. Tonight several raids are contem plated in the 22d street district, the East Chicago avenue district, Wilson &Srs!XgltyafSttJrv,r&4& t&4".mi - traJl i m,. tiwiiiifttitfMi