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ONE CENT-nsrg..(M CENT NORTHWESTERN "L" TRAINS COLLIDE TWO PERSONS ARE BELIEVED DYING THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL 6, NO. 8 Chicago, Friday, October 6, 1916 398 BILLION-DOLLAR TRAIN BACKERS ARE SHOWN BY MRS. BASS Richly Replete With Splendiferous Janes Who JVlarried Wall Street Guys Money! Money! Money! Also Lots -of Cash and Dough. Mrs. George P. Bass, secretary of the Woman's Bureau at the national Democratic headquarters, . today nailed down some hard facts about the Billion Dollar Special train that came to Chicago and went yesterday. Starting with the wives of John D. Archbold and J. Og Armour and end ing wih Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, mother of W. R. Hearst, Mrs.' Bass furnished a list of the women who paid for the train and the list shows it's a safe bet to call it" a Billion Dollar Special. "Women like Mrs. Raymond Rob ins and Mary Antin have done great life works, and they have each a mes sage," said Mrs. Bass. "But the mes sage they have is not being delivered from the platform of the Billion Dol lar Special.