LAWLESS CHICAGO

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11123, 5 February 1930, Page 6

LAWLESS CHICAGO

FOURTH GANG MURDER IN FOUR DAYS.

LAWLESSNESS COXTLX UES UNABATED.

TWO BOMB EXPLOSIONS

onited Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyrigm CHICAGO, Feb. 3. A crime wave in Chicago almost unparalleled even for this city was augmented to.day by a gang murder, the fourth; in as many days, and two bombings, one in a theatre crowded• with women and children. Forty hold-ups were listed oil the notice records in a lO.hour period. Shooting, robberies, and slugging!* u the meantime also continue unabated. There wore oUO women and children in a theatre in Hinsdale, a sub. urb of Chicago, when the bomb blast shook the building. They stampeded for the exits, screaming with fear. There was a crush in the doorways and many were .in peril of being trampled to oath. The second bombing destroyed three shops and rocked the entire south-west side of Chicago early this morning. Thousands of residences within a radius of two miles were jarred and the streets filled with terrified men. women, and children, many in their night clothes. None was reported injured. FINANCIAL POSITION STILL UNSETTLED. MUNICIPAL ‘WORKERS AGREE TO “CUTS.” UDited Press A*sn. by El. Tel Oonyriirlr CHICAGO, Feb. 3. The city’s financial position (uii. tinues unsettled. Thirteen hundred employees have agreed to a 15 per cent, cut in salaries rather than have L’OU of their number discharged;

A large number of suburbs also are facing financial pressure, due to the delav in the collection of the 10dS-2J taxes, while doubts concern, ing tine, legality of the tax law are known to he responsible, for Chicago’s difficulties. Charges ol mis. management and spendthrift policies an* blamed for the particularly critical plight of the city.