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55 LAST EDITION PRESIDENT STANDS PAT ON FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD .it. LAST EDITION GIRL TAKES POISON WHEN SPURNED BY FIANCE Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postofflce at Chicago, EL, Under the Act of March 3, 1&79. THE DAY BOOK AnAdless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St. "398 VOL.3, NO. 240 Chicago, Friday, July 10, 1914 Tel. Monroe 353. r By Mail, Except in Ch?cag0j$3 aYear ONE CENT ROSENWALD-HOYNE SCRAP STAGED IN JUDGE OWENS' COURT Prosecutor Opens Fight to Force Payment on 'Juliusr $38,000,000 Capital Stock Hoyne to Start on Loop Property Owners Granted Assessors' Records. Plans for getting after undervalued loop property and a scrap with Julius Rosenwald featured Hoyne's war on the taxdodgers today. Attorneys for Julius and Ass't State's Att'ys Berger and Bell are sparring in the county court, where Hoyne Is trying to force Rosenwald to pay taxes on about $38,000,000 capital stock of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Hoyne says this property should be taxed $400,000. But Julius is fighting hack. He is now being sued under the revenue law which only carries a fine of $200. But from Hoyne's office came the leak that he was going ahead with all, rich men whom he finds deliberately dodge taxes. One man went so far as to say that before long criminal "prosecution would be started on charges of conspiracy. Judge Owens is aiding the prosecu tor in the general war on taxdodgers and this morning ordered all records brought from the assessor's office and thrown open to Hoyne. -A ,tmyjmMji3j mmmm mmmm