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SS&fl&iI LAST EDITION ONE CENTi WHAT ELLEN GATES STARR THINKS OF ONE JEW CIVIL SERVICE AFTER INVISIBLE GOV ERNMENT TELLS TALE OF SERBIAN HORROR THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 5, NO. 51 Chicago, Friday, November 26, 1915 iiiT WHO BLOCKS LAW THAT WOUID SAVE LIVES? Months Ago City Council Passed Auto Truck Fender, Ordinance to End Dire Death Toll of Auto Trucks Power Invisible Has Held It Up. "Who is stalling the fender law? Back in March of this year fifty eight members of the city council voted for a law compelling auto truck owners to put fenders on their machines. These aldermen a month ago again went on record for the fender law, instructing the chief of police to see that it was put into operation before Dec L The original ordinance provided that a board of city engineers should Inspect fenders brought to them and report as to their efficiency. That was over eight months ago. Four fenders have-been passed by this board of engineers up to date, according to one of their number. Reports on these fenders were passed on to Chief Healey and Major Punkhouser. But no action has been taken. According to coroner's office rec ords, 15 people had been killed by auto trucks in the three months pre vious to the passage of the fender law in March. Five of these were children. During March, when the fender law was passed, six people, two of them children, were crushed to death by fenderless auto trucks. The toll since tfiat date hag been; . ...... . - ... . i i I, r tti it-i Mi ! da-fflHii mmmammmmmmmammmmmmmmam . I 111 !! II I II J I .. -iT:-.,imTga