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i-i:w K'inrx' LAST EDITION LAST EDITION ORGANIZED BASEBALL ' FEDERAL BODY MEETS LOSES DECISION IN AND .HEARS PIEZ TELL CHASE CASE k I OF OPEN SHOP Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postofflce at Chicago, m., "Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK . An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, sgjggs& Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. vSgggjgE? By Mail, Except In w500 Souths Peoria St. 388 Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL.3, NO. 249 Chicago, Tuesday, July 21, 1914 ONE CENT WAR OF REDLIGHT RIVALS DRAGGED INTO GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION - r Hoyne Probes Report of Divekeepers' Scrap in Connect v tion With Latest Trouble Special Squads Will Sweep City Colosimo, Booked, Out on Bonds," f A new theory was advanced today by those on the "Inside" iu, $ie South t Side levee purporting to show that the only deliberate gun plots hatched 5 there has been by the members'" of w rival gaigs, employed by resort own 1 ers. t State's Attorney Hoyne will inves tigate this report when he takes the entire affair before the grand jury to ;. morrow. Detectives who have been, working on this angle believe, that : - owners of resorts left in the old red- lightdistrict have been fighting each H other To this war they ascribe the killing of Jimmy Fletcher, who was shot down in front of his own doorway, several months ago. Acting on this information, the search for a possible motive for the affray that led to the killing of Officer Stanley Birns was given a fresh im petus today. One man, who is well acquainted, with conditions on the old "line," said that some of the old divekeepers are even working" in with reform or ganizations in an effort to wreck the opposing faction. State's Attorney Hoyne announced 'today that he'Wj?nM,present the ea-