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ONE CENT- ONE CENT LAST EDITION BIRTH CONTROL HAS COME TO STAY MARGARET SANGER THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL 6, NO. 21 Chicago, Saturday, October 21, 1916 398 GRAFT WITNESS HELD TO GRAND JURY-HITS CITY HALL CROWD Peter Gaynor Finds It's a Dangerous Game to Knock Thompson-Lundin Administration Judge Olson Holds Him for Perjury Thoney Sticks to Slot Machine Story. It doesn't pay to buck the high powered Republican machine that . d dominates the City Hall, so Peter J. Gaynor, a Lithuanian saloonkeeper, ' without friends and unable to speak English well, was made understand today. Because his charge that he paid $250 to have his license restor ed contained a few discrepancies, Chiqf Justice Olson of the municipal court held him to the grand jury for perjury today under $5,000 bonds. Olson's action was a source of great joy to the Thompson-Lundin faction. They believed it would dis credit Gaynor's entire story. Gaynor, while on the stand yes terday, after telling his sensational graft story, did not say he made other efforts to regain his license ex-