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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1930
Page
8
Additional patients are needed at once for the toy hospital run by Boy Scout Troop No. 124 in William Dale’s carpenter shop on East Hill. About 500 toys have been repaired or repainted and will be given to children at Christmas. Connie’s grocery on East Hill serves as the receiving station for toy donations.
Judge John H. Lyle notes a money pinch among Chicago gangsters as many fail to bring large cash bonds. Bernard OConnell could not post 10 000 cash bond and was jailed again. Others, including Frank Rio, Capone's bodyguard, share similar troubles in recent weeks.
Rudolph Hegovic, 19, was sentenced to 99 years at hard labor for the murder of Mary Pelletier, mother of five, in Chicago. Judge Joseph B. David denied new trial motions and ordered immediate transfer to Joliet penitentiary with solitary confinement each May 22.
Des Moines AP Ray Yenter state insurance commissioner will survey holding company practices in life insurance firm acquisitions. He will hire a New York consulting actuary firm to conduct the inquiry. Yenter warns group purchase transactions could manipulate securities. He has corresponded with Miles M Dawson and Company of New York, noted for its prior insurance investigation in 1905.
Chicago. Mayor William Hale Thompson and B W Snow clash over the Republican mayoral candidate for the February primary. Deneen and Brundage leaders plan talks on a candidate other than Thompson while Barrett remains in the field. Thompson denounces Snow and Barrett as he defends his administration. Snow accuses the Thompson administration of besmirching Chicago’s reputation. Edinburgh Film guild organizes to boost film art in Scotland. Ten British aircraft makers display at the Paris auto show.
Prague reports General Janin, aided by Dieterich, claims to reveal the burial site of the former czar, czarina, and czarevitch. He says he obtained the remains in Russia, fled with them to France, and secretly buried them with royal jewels in a family plot. Betsy Nuthall also noted as a rising horsewoman is mentioned in the same column.
Mrs. Carrie Budd sues for divorce from John Budd in Chicago superior court alleging repeated Christmas Eve incidents where he struck her after she dressed as Mrs. Santa Claus to entertain their children. The filing cites five consecutive Christmas Eves.
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