Chicago gangs boss over all city industry
The organized crime survey by John Landesco attributes over 90 percent of Chicago’s economic activity to gangsters and gunmen. Noted figures include Maxie Eisen Simon J Gorman Tim Murphy Tommy Torrio and Al Capone. The report cites payoffs protection and violence used to control laundries cleaning and dyeing meat and other trades, with political protection and election fraud as recurring supports.
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International News Service
Chicago
John Landeseco
American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
Maxie Eisen
Simon J. Gorman
Tim Murphy
Tommy Torrio
al Capone
Torrio
Gorman
Chicago Laundry Owner's Association
Walter G. Walker
State’s
Cleaners Association
Canada Surpasses U S in Growth Rate in Industrial Output
Montreal June 15. Royal Bank of Canada says Canada’s industrial activity since 1926 rose about six times faster than the United States. Canada up 12 percent in two years versus 2 percent in U S. Steel up 58 percent vs 6 percent, hydroelectric power 49 percent vs 19, petroleum use 50 percent vs 16. Bank cites railroad construction and new building as drivers.
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Associated Press
Montreal
Royal Bank of Canada
Canada
United States
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Federal Reserve Board
Dominion
Human relations study favored for engineers
New York June 13 engineers urged to study effects of technical work on people. The Engineering Foundation annual report calls for improving living and communication facilities to raise intellectual, moral, and social well being and promotes health and brotherliness. Alfred D. Flinn promotes a science of humanics.
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New York
Engineering Foundation
Alfred D. Flinn
Foundation
Belgrade deficit found in dissolved parliament accounts
Belgrade June 13. Members of the dissolved parliament drew pay several months in advance, producing a deficit of nearly 60000 dollars in the body’s accounts. Some former legislators have declined to return the money and the pursuit of reimbursement is under discussion.
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Associated Press
Belgrade
Alexander
Birds Fly Over Ocean To Summer In Alaska
The bristle-thighed curlews migrate from Hawaiian quarts to northern Alaska for a May to August summer. They return to Hawaii after nesting. Little is known about the species though they are noted fliers with reported crop theft by nesting ground raids. Breeding is thought to occur in extreme northern or northwestern Alaska.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hawaiian
Alaska
Hawaii
Jugo-Slavian Government Orders Prosecutor Actions
The government has directed the public prosecutor to initiate legal actions against them as Sago trees flower only once, highlighting a rare botanical anomaly paired with political moves.
Negro to die in chair for Dallas death
In Dallas on June 13 a crippled white grocer was killed after robbers demanded surrender but he could not raise his hands. Edward Landers was sentenced to death and his brother Ardell Landers received the lethal chair. Another suspect, M. L. Lacy, got 25 years.
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Dallas
Edward Landers
Joe Piccola
Ardell Landers
Edward
M. Ll. Lacy
McLarty Faces Deferred Sentence in Bankruptcy Case
Dallas June 13 F F McLarty, found guilty yesterday by a Federal jury on 22 counts of concealing assets in bankruptcy, today faced a deferred sentence. The trial stemmed from the 1927 failure of the McLarty Nash Motor Company of Dallas.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Tex
F. F. Mc Larty
McLarty Nash Motor Company
Larry Lived Under Alias Before Northwest Flight Capture
Larry fled to the Northwest using an assumed name and was captured 60 days ago. Sentencing was deferred.
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Larry
Evening dress by day in formal London way
London society frowns on casual dress and gossip about a go getter. A chaotic Covent Garden performance of Goetterdaemmerung sparked chatter as a bomb scare reportedly interrupted a carriage and opera attendance, with patrons in formal evening wear noted for restraint.
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London
Associated Trees
Covent Garden
London diners return to the opera after brief meals
On a clear Strand day, women in low neck gowns and men in full dress hurried homeward from work to hasty dinners and then returned to the opera in time for the performance at o o'clock.
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Strand
London
Bondsman Failure Leads To Jail Threat In Pueblo
William Wild Hill of Boone faces potential jail after failing to post bond in a Pueblo case. Officials from Pueblo city and county weigh whether he violated the national prohibition law, with concurrence on possible consequences. The terse notice reflects uncertainty about guilt and enforcement action.
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Pueblo, Colo
William “Wild Mil" Hill
Boone, Aity
Pueblo City
Admitting Bill Hill Arraigned On Liquor Charge
Admitting Wild Bill is an honest man Hill was arraigned on operating a still and possession of liquor His bond was set at 2500 Hill was released but another band member failed to appear leaving Bill at liberty with no bond He boarded a streetcar and went to the county jail where he waited until bond could be raised The remarks imply a local law precedent The passage also notes that the upas tree yields poisonous juice and that Italy has almost no coal.
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Hil
Hill
Bill
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