FRENZIED TURMOIL
MARKS MAYORAL CONTEST
EXPLOSIVES FREELY USED,
POLICE GIVE NO QUARTER.
(United Press Assn.-'-Oopyright.) (Received .10.8 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 5,
| Mr Thompson was elected Mayor of I Chicago by a plurality of 50,000 votes, i amid unprecedented rioting, in which I machine guns and bombs were used | freely by the police on the rival fac- [ tious. Soon after the polls were { opened, two buildings were bombed in = the precincts of the headquarters of | one of the factions. A State Scnai tor’s home was fired upon and raked ' with machine gun bullets. ! Two election officials were kid- ' napped; 100 gangsters were arrested; {all the votes in the 21st ward were I burned, lighted matches being dropped ! into the ballot boxes; a bomb wrecked • a brick barn in which were situated ! the Democratic ward headquarters. J The effective organisation of the 1 police prevented more serious riots j and deaths. Mr Thompson’s suppoftI ers have begun wild celebrations, j which, the police fear, will result in , additional outbreaks.
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Northern Advocate, 7 April 1927, Page 5
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