GANG MURDERS

Southland Times, Issue 21000, 5 February 1930, Page 5

GANG MURDERS

T wo Bombings Chicago’s Crime Wave ALMOST UNPARALLELED e * FORTY HOLD-UPS IN TEN HOURS (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) New York, February 3. The crime wave in Chjcago, which is almost unparalleled even for that city’, was augmented to-day 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 wereSisted on the police records in the ten hour period. Shootings, robberies and slugings in the meantime also continued unabated.

There were 300 women and children in the theatre in the Hinsdale 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.

The second bombing destroyed three shops and rocked the entire south-west 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 in their* night clothes. None was reported injured however. Meantime the city’s financial position, continues unsettled and 1,300 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 are also facing financial pressure due to the delay in the collection of the 1928-29 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.