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NOOIVT EDITION '; ONE -CENT
ALD. KENNEDY TELLS OF DEATHS "BACK O' TH
YARDS" JUDGE SCULLY UPHOLDS WOMEN AS
, ELECTION JUDGES POLICE SHAKEUP NEAR
b THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL.4, NO. 170 Chicago, Friday, April 16, 19t5
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END CF MORALS SQUAD
PLAN OF THOMPSON
Mayor-Elect Will Ask Council to Curb Funkhouser's
Power Disgusted With Trapping of Women,
by Stool Pigeons.
Mayor-elect William Hale Thomp
son, who, as a private citizen, has
had a splendid- opportunity to watch
the workMf Major Funkhouser and
his morals squad, has come out
strong against the sort of work now
being done by the second deputy's
office.
Yesterday, on board his ship, the
Kabekona, steaming down the Mis
sissippi? the man from whom Chi
cago is expecting so much during the
next four years in office, delivered
himself quite forcefully on the sub
ject of the morals squad.
His opinion may not exactly please
the trust press and the professional
reformers who have been urging
Funkhouser and his gang of investi
gators .on. But43o far Thompson has
cause the press raps him when he
doesn't run "according to orders."
Thompson said that he.was watch
ed with growing anger the methods
of Funkhouser's stool pigeons, to ob
tain evidence against women of the
underworld. He has watched while
these men drunk with authority ran
wild over the dark corners of the city
throwing the city's money to the.
wind, and he has come to the con
clusion that their's is the sort of work
that doesn't dignify Chicago. So .he's
made upiiis mind to stop it
When the new council convenes
Thompson, who, with a majority of
its members following his lead, will
have an excellent 'chance to work
with free hands, will ask that the
power of the second deputy's office
hpwn no disposition tPJWPrry. beJ,be. curbed an44hatibe.QOj1tr9l9f.Yice;
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