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Show I GODMAN GOES AFTER j SALARY LOAN SHARKS License Collector S- r. Godman began his war on salarv loan sharks Thurs- ! dav when a warrant and summons worn issuod against the -Star Loan agency In the Atlas block; David ncrgestrom. tho local manager, and Charles E. Stratton. a nonresident, proprietor of the concern, which controls about fifty offices. Jt is expected that a number of arrests will ' bo mode today for the nonpayment of the license of ?10"n the year. Mr. Godman inslitutod the fight against the loan sharks some time ago and is now dotonninod to sop It through to a finish. Some of those agendo? charge as high as 120 per cent for loaning small amounts, and they nro without the pale of tho law, which permits only 12 per cent, loans made at a higher rate bo-Inp; bo-Inp; noncollootlblo. Mr. Godman says the agents are roiulrd to pay .1 license of 5100 a year and ho is going to collect it. |