CHICAGO HAS FULL PLAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 943, 9 April 1930, Page 9

CHICAGO HAS FULL PLAY

Bitter Election Fight Ends in Gang Street Shooting and Bombs

Received 11.10 a.m. . CHICAGO, Tuesday. THIS city’s penchant for violence in elections was given full play today, when between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 voters of Illinois went to the polls in the Republican primary election to choose the party’s I’ederal nominee for the Senate. The choice lies between Mrs. Ruth McCormick, whose father and husband have been United States Senators, and who herself is now a member of Congress, and Senator Charles Deneen, who defeated Mrs. McCormack’s husband, C. Q. McCormack, six years ago for the same nomination. The campaign, which was an extremely bitter one, culminated in Chicago today with an attempt to kidnap an aiderman, one shooting and one bombing, and reports of gangster raids and other instances of lawlessness. Seven men brandishing pistols crowded the alderman’s automobile against the curb, but the police interfered and saved the official and captured three of his assailants. State Attorney Swanson has threatened that indictments would follow if the police, under the control of Mr. William ihompson, showed partiality in enforcing the election laws. Charges were made that 50,000 fraudulent names had been registered for voting and reports all day long from "The Bad Land” wards of Chicago indicated that strong arm methods were playing their usual part.