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Show UK. SCORES THE MONEY SHARKS. a The one-hundred-per-cent loan sharks were bitterly scored by W. 'Judge Landis in Chicago, when he gave light sentences to two young I j bank clerks who had falsified bank records to cover up a shortage of ! $500, taken to satisfy a debt to a loan agent. ;' ! A youth who earned $110 monthly was sent to the house of cor- I rection for sixty days, and the other, a $60-a-month clerk, was lined ' ' one cent, which his counsel promptlj' paid. Ej The money lender, Carl Carroll, who is also a lawyer, has been , cited to appear before Judge Landis and show cause why he should , not be barred from practice in the United States district court. ,h . In sentencing the young men Judge Landis said: , S i "You should not have stolen to satisfy the 100 per cent loan ' VX men. The best way to handle those men is to get a "vvagon tongue and go after them." |