CHICAGO’S MAYORALTY
EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS AT ELECTIONS. New York, April 3. A Chicago message says following the attendance of the primary contest by violence, this city, after the most bitterly contested municipal campaign in its history, has appealed to Governor Small, of Illinois to be prepared to call the troops out on Tuesday when the Mayoralty election will be held. Interest centres around the contest between William Thompson (Republican) and William Dever (Democrat). Charges that 10,000 negroes will be used to foment race riots during the elections have caused officials to take extraordinary precautions. It is announced that 105 police rifle squads in automobiles will tour the streets, while other police cars carrying 35 machine-guns will protect the polling places.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20146, 5 April 1927, Page 7
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121CHICAGO’S MAYORALTY Southland Times, Issue 20146, 5 April 1927, Page 7
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