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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1933
Page
7
Mayor John P. O Brien orders a city wide crackdown on gang rackets after a spike in violence and losses. Police Commissioner and five district attorneys summoned to heighten enforcement efforts against racketeering.
Police link John Friscia to the slot machine racket as he is killed in an automobile and dumped on a Brooklyn street. The shooting follows a flurry of gang violence that also claimed Kitty O'Brien and left two women wounded in a Broadway car battle. Detectives suspect Friscia knew the murders, tied to racketeer clashes in the period.
The Federal Farm Board, created to aid agriculture at the start of the Hoover era, passed out of existence Friday. Its usable functions are being salvaged by merging into the new Farm Credit Administration in Washington.
Horatio Bottomley once a leading British editor, financier, and wartime orator died at 73 in a Middlesex hospital ward after a week of illness. Raised in poverty, he rose to power with John Bull magazine and Victory bonds, later ruined by embezzlement and seven years in jail before dying a pauper in hospital.
Poona India Gandhi remains in good health as doctors say he is extraordinarily well with seventy two hours left in his twenty one day fast against untouchability. Friends and followers await the end of the ordeal after his morning prayers and a period of sleep Friday.
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