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TO USE KESSNER ALLEGED TAX DODGE CASE TO TEST LAW To test the constitutionality of the tax law which provides a penalty for failure to file personal property schedule the case of Jacob L. Ress ner, millionaire real estate broker, part owner of the Pair department store, and alleged taxdodger, will be taken to the supreme court today on a mandamus proceedings. Under agreement with the state's attorney's office, Judge Sabath of the municipal court yesterday refused leave to file information against Kessner because of the ruling of the 'appellate court, which has held that the law was repealed by the act of 1888. The state's attorney's office wishes the matter definitely decided by the supreme court In order that it may proceed with further cases of alleged taxdodgers. "I believe every man should be forced to file a personal property tax schedule," said Judge Sabath this morning. "This is a case where some judge had to be the goat in order that the matter be taken to the supreme court and definitely decided whether the law has been repealed as held by the appelate court. I was willing to be the goat." The record of the board of assess ors shows that Kescsner, who resides at 4756 Grand blvd., has personal property assessed at $7,600 in his home, including three automobiles, a piano, household furniture and a three-story residence, and office fix tures in his office in the Kessner building assessed at $800; that he was served with notice to file person al property schedule on April 5 and has not complied with said demand. "We are anxious to have this mat ter settled," Assistant State's Att'y E. K Walker said in making the motion for leave to file information, which was denied by Judge Sabath. "If the law has been repealed we want to know it through a decision of the su preme court, and if not Tve will be able to go after a number of these, cases." Kessner is held up to $4 and $5 em ployes of the Fair as a shining exam ple of a man who was a poor boy and is now a millionaire and they are advised to follow his example. o o ARREST THE MEN IN EFFORT TO CLEAN UP 31ST STREET When they found that arresting women and fining them in the morals court did not help to clean up 31st st. Detective Sergeant John Kelley and his "vice squad" adopted new tactics. Within the last eight days 150 men have been fined various amounts in the morals court. They were arrested in the wee small hours of the morn ing along 31st st. Unable to give a satisfactory acocunt of themselyes, they were hailed into court and fined $1 or $2. Visitors from Hammond, Oak Park and even respectable Evanston have been picked up while loafing along the street Cap't Ryan of the Stanton av. sta tion has endorsed the actions of his morals squad. He says that the ar rest of these men has done more to clean up his district than anything in recent years, seated m tne morals court Judge Heap sifts the excuses of the men to find the truth. He seldom finds it "So long as the officers bring in these men I will do my part," he said. "When they arrest these men they are taking a step in the right direc tion. I predict that Cap't Ryan will have his district cleaned up in a very few weeks if he persists in his pres ent campaign." o o THE GIRL'S WAY To buy her presents his cash is spent And her words of thanks were sweeter than honey; But when he had squandered his last red cent She married a youth wno uad saved his money. London Globe, j