AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 25

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

UNRULY CHICAGO MOB. CHICAGO, August 3. In a clash between police and a mob of 5000, led by Communists, three negroes were fatally shot, while several others were seriously wounded. The trouble was precipitated when Communists, objecting to the eviction of a woman, started moving the furniture back into the home. Detectives arrested the Communists, and a spirit of anarchy was then shown. Masses swept forward against the detectives, who summoned police reserves. Some of those in the crowd used revolvers, knives, and razors. Eventually the police, using clubs and pistols, forced the mob to retreat, leaving behind them three negroes who were killed. BACK TO THE RING. NEW YORK. August 4. A message from Reno (Nevada) states that Jack Dempsey announced that about August 20 lie would return to the ring on a barn-storming tour, meeting all comers in four-round bouts. He stated that he had been working out every day for the past month six to twelve rounds, and had reduced his weight to 199 Jib. NOTORIOUS GANGSTER. NEW Y*ORK, August 8. Jack Diamond, the gangster, was finally convicted of felony after many contests with the law. He was found guilty to-day of violating the Prohibition /Act by maintaining an illicit still, and he faces a sentence of four years and a fine of 11,000 dollars. He was recently acquitted of a charge of torturing a farmer during his beer-running activities. The gangster will probably appeal against to-day’s conviction. PRICE OF COTTON. CHICAGO, August 8. One of the most sensational falls in the price of cotton occurred at the Board of Trade here to-day, when the commodity dropped 156 points, or 780 cents per bale, the lowest level for 31 years. Upon the Government estimate this year’s crop will total 15,584,000 bales, against 12,932,000 bales in 1930. October options closed at 6.84 cents per lb, compared with 8.17 yesterday. THE GREAT WAR. NEW YORK, August 8. " An international conference of Young Men’s Christian Associations, 'which is meeting at Cleveland, reached a deadlock over the question of German responsibility for the war. A resolution by a committee that no one nation could be held responsible proved unacceptable to the French group, while the German group agitated for a settlement of the question. President Hoover, addressing the delegates by radio, said: “ The problems before the world were never greater than they are to-day, and no small degree of responsibility for their solution rests upon you. I and my countrymen have confidence in you and the contributions you will make to the future.”