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Show WHITE SLAVERY IS TO BE WIPED OUT Chicago. Oct. 25. A nation-wide federal campaign against "white slave" traffickers will be started. It the plans of Cnited States District Attorney Edwin W. Sims materializes. Mr. Sims Is in Washington conferring confer-ring with Attorney General Wlcker-fham Wlcker-fham regarding the conditions that the investigators (.f the department of justice have disclosed. When the Mann bill was passed, providing a heavy penalty for all persons engaged J in tlie traffic of women, ii was supposed sup-posed ihat many ..f these persons would be driven out of the business. Instead of this, however, the Investigators Investi-gators are said to have learned that, more persons than ever are engaged at the prest nt time in the traffic. Recently the investigators have visited the Strand ' levee" district in south Chicago, which was practically wiped out a year o. in a series of federal raids. Conditions at present arc said to be worse than ever before. be-fore. Mr. Sims will ask that orders he ishiied to all district attorneys for a concerted action against the- jier-j jier-j sous engaged In the traffic. |