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.&ffr1tFQXtt LAST jEDITIQN i LASTEDITION HUNDRED THOUSAND TO BE IDLE IN CHICAGO IN JANUARY CANADIANS KILL YANKEE THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newepaptry Daily Extept Sunday D.- Ctu&raB, , - sSfSm Telephones: Etei; nd PttblWwr. Hgy Eefiterfa Monroe 353. 500 South Peoria St. - 3W CfrcutaSoaMonroe 3826. VOL. 4,, NO. 77 Chicago, Monday, Dec 28, 1914' ONE CENT FUNKHOUSER SQUAD CHARGED WITH FRAMING EVIDENCE ON WOMEN HuldaJi Potter-Loomis Shocks Fashionable Women and I .Reformer's by Attack on Morals Court and Funk? houser Makes Plea fpr Girls of Underworld Cites Case oJF "Countess" Yorke" Mrs. Huldah.P.otter .Lbqmis, who yesterday shocked social workers and reformers by her .speech against the morals court in the open.f orum at the 'Masonic.'Temple, todayf ojlowed that Bpeech wittranother Just as bristling: ' Y&terflay she spoke on the- "im moral morals, court." Today, she con, deinned'theJisycopathic laboratory and the-methods of. Major Funk housr. , H Erne accused, Fuhkhouser and-his morals squad of "framing" and, of' manufacturing evidence on women 'brought 'fcjto $he morals courjL '-ghq touched oh -that-yesterday In thej forum, crowded, with society women. After, her speech a. small man wear ing av tin. badge,, forced his way up to the speaker and asked her 'if fche' ' -had proof of her charges. , . ' Mrs. Iioomis then spoke of, 'the 'ar rest of the "Countess Yorke,", former ly the. wife of George Meade, the ad vertising man, in "her fashionable apartments of Pulierton parkway,, "The. evidence against the countess was thin," she, said. "One of the In--yestigators .by iook or crook xoan-i. aged to get "himself into -the Yorke