CRIME WAVE IN CHICAGO.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18491, 5 February 1930, Page 9

CRIME WAVE IN CHICAGO.

Almost Without Parallel. FORTY HOLD-UPS LISTED. (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 3. The crime wave in Chicago is almost unparalleled, even for that city. It 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 were listed on the police records in a ten-hour period. Shootings, robberies and sluggings meantime also continued unabated. There were 3000 women and children in a theatre in the Hin6dale 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 is reported injured, however. Meantime the City’s financial position continues unsettled. Thirteen hundred employees have agreed to a 15 per cent, cut of salaries rather than have 200 of their number discharged. A large number of suburbs are also facing financial pressure, due to 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.