CORRUPT CHICAGO

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 5

CORRUPT CHICAGO

THOMPSON BLAMED NEWSPAPER’S ATTACK (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Chicago, April 8. Big Bill Thompson., who leaves offfiee on Friday, when the new- Mayor, Air Anton J. Ceirmak. will he sworn in, receives tin* 'following editorial or mm cut from, the. Chicago Tribune; “It i s a.n. unpleasant- business to catch a. .skunk, hut on© does it. For Chicago, Thompson has meant filth, corruption, obscenity, idiocy, and bankruptcy*. He has given, the city an international reputation for moronic buffoonery, 'barbaric crime. Irium ph an t lio o 1 i galriis m, uiicheeke d graft, and dejected citizenship. Tie has nearly ruined property, and has completely destroyed pride of city. He lias made?, Chicago a. by-word- for the collapse of the Amerenn civil isn-