Bombers in Chicago

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 888, 4 February 1930, Page 9

Bombers in Chicago

PANIC AT CROWDED THEATRE City of Crime and Muddle FORTY HOLD-UPS IN TEN HOURS CHICAGO is suffering an unparalleled crime cycle, and shootings and gang murders are widespread. Bombs have been freely used, in one instance wrecking three shops and on another occasion rocking a crowded theatre and throwing the audience into a stampede. The city management muddle continues.

Reed. 11 a.m. NEW YORK, Monday. The third crime cycle in Chicago and one that is almost unparalleled, even for that city, was augmented today 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 on the police records in a ten-hour period. Shootings, robberies and sluggings meantime have also continued unabated. Three hundred women and children were in a theatre In Hinsdale, a local suburb, when a 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 death. A second bombing destroyed three shops and rocked the entire southwest 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 of them in their night clothes. None is reported to be injured, however. In the meantime, the city’s financial position continues unsettled. One thousand three hundred employees have agreed to a 15 per cent, cut in salaries rather than have 200 of their number discharged. A large number of the suburbs Is also facing financial pressure due to the delay in the collection of the 1925-29 29 taxes. While doubts concerning the legality of the tax law are known to be responsible for Chicago's difficulties, charges of mismanagement and spendthrift policies are blamed for the particularly critical plight of the city.