AWFUL CHICAGO

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1930, Page 5

AWFUL CHICAGO

RECENT CRIME WAVE

MURDERS AND BOMBINGS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 12 noon). NEW YORK, February 3. A crime wave in Chicago, almost unparalleled even tor that city, was augmented to-day by a gang murder, the fourth in, as many clays, and two bombings, one in a theatre crowded with women and children.

Fbrt.v hold-ups were listed on the police records in a 10 hour period—shootings, robberies and slugging meantime also continued unabated. There were three hundred women and children in the theatre in Hinsdale suburb, when a bombing 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 death.

A second bombing destroyed throe shops and rocked the entire south west 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 are reported injured, however. Meantime the city’s financial position continues unsettled. Thirteen hundred employees have agreed to a fifteen per cent, cut in salaries, rather than have two hundred of their number discharged. A large number of suburbs are also facing financial pressure, due to the collection of 1928-29 taxes.

While clouhts concerning the legality of the tax law are known to be responsible'for Chicago’s difficulties, charges of mismanagement and spendthrift policies were blamed for the particularly critical plight of the city.