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COAL CRISIS.
POLICY OF GOVERNMENT ATTACKED.
CRIME IN CHICAGO,
STARTLING RESULTS OF A POLICE RAID.
London, July 1. Chicago, May 2.-Coroner Wolff Sir W. Joynson Hicka moved that and Harry Eugene Kelly, president An address be presented to His of the Union League club, who have Majesty thanking him for the
joined in the charge that an alliance gracious message continuing the State of Emergency. Sir W, J. between gangsters and politicians Hicks emphasised that the is responsible for Chicago's crime motion was a survival of an imme-situation, will be the first witnesses morial form of courtesy, as the before a 'special grand jury to be Government and not His Majesty |
was responsible for the emergency assembled to-morrow and charged regulations. He hoped the with the duty of investigating gang Labourites would allow the motion murderers. to be passed without any remark refecting on the Crown.
This was the announcement to night by State's Attorney Crowe 48 he planned to go into an extended conference with Attornby-General Carlstrom, who made a special trip:
Mr. Clyne moved än ämendment "regretting the policy of the Government which would be an impediment against restoring peace in the coal Industry, and 'conse-' quently a menace to public order.to Chicago to unite with Mr. Crowe in directing the war on crime be- Amendment' Defeated.
"fore the special jury, "„
Mr. Clynes's amendment, which Mr. Winston Churchill described as
division resulting :--
In this manner, it was believed
COTTON INDUSTRY.
ENCOURAGEMENT IN
AUSTRALIA.
PROPOSED BOUNTIES.
Melbourne, July 2
In order to encourage, the cotton Industry in Australia the Federal Government is asking Parliament to Tarns, also a bounty of 11⁄2 par lb. grant a bounty on spinning cotton
for five years on seed cotton. Reuter,
SPANISH PLOT.
COUNT ROMAÑONES IN
." FRANCE;
Paris, July 2. port from Hendaye "that Count The Quotidien publishes a re- Romanones had no difficulty in en- tering France because no warrant Inter-
a vote of consuro, was defeated, the Mr. Crowe can effectively dispose was issued for his arrest..
of, the criticism of himself and the demands for a special prosecutor uhallied with his office. To demon- atrate that he has. nothing to hide, Mr. Crowe is calling those who ac- cuse him, it was reported,
Against 'For
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161
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ናኒ .
Machine Gunner Sought..
Other developments to-day were as follow:
viewed, he said the recent move- ment was neither Anarchist nor Communist, but principally military in character and aimed at restoring the constitution and securing a free Farliament.-Reuter.
S.Ö.S.
SHIPOWNERS AND DANGEROUS ABUSE.
1. Search for Al Browne, the Cicero crime leader whose real name is Tony "Scarface" Capone, and who has been accused directly of using the machine gun which killed: William McSwiggin.. assistant state's attorney: James J. Doherty, beer runner. "and "Thomas Duffy.pliances at sen was ordered widened, probably to extend to other states"
T.U Support.
London, July 2 That the Trade Union movement is unbroken, but stronger as a re- sult of the general strike, and all resources must be mobilised to de- feat the Government a policy of "surrounding the miners with a cor- 2. State's Attorney Crowe was don of famine and despair, by named in a death threat as
the generally increasing hours and re- next victim of gang killers in a ducing wages, is the keynote of a letter sent to the home of Pronevu- declaration by the Trade Union į tor McSwiggin.
The question of life-saving ap
was among the subjects discussed by the Inter national Shipping Conference, at which the Right Hon. Walter Ranciman presided: 'Sir Norman Hill said that at an international convention of Government repre- sentatives it was laid down that ships must carry sufficient bouts to accommodate all the passengers
Congress to the affiliated Unidna: 3. Raids in Cicere were von arging that maintenance and soli-tinued, one yielding a huge cache darity be sustained for the provision of alcohol in a place owned by Alaboard. It did not matter if the of funds for the miners, their de Browne, und another resulting in pendants,
and the arrest of three men and a
young women'
and all victimised the seizure of three fonded rifles
workers.-Reuter.
AGAINST CANTON.
LIN HU TO LEAD AN EXPEDITION.
Peking, July 2 It is reported that Admiral Tsai Ting-kan has resigned from the Shutwuchu and Chinese Tariff Con-
ference Delegation.
Citing against Brown the old say ing. "Only the guilty fleeth," the police used avery available resource in their search for him. Informed of refuges he had used before when closely pressed by enemies, the Squads rushed to them, only to find no traces of their quarry,
Note Threatens Crowe. The threat against Mr. Crowe was.
printed in pencil characters and was embellished with a crude skall and crous bones, and a black hand,
Chinese reports state that Wu Pei-fu · has instructed Lin Hut read: " (Whom WA Pei-fu appointed Tuchun of Kwangtung prior to the Chihi-Fangtien Wer in 1924) to organise an expedition against Canion..
Lin H is at present in Hankow, and his troops, who form the nucleus of the proposed expedition, are still at Halachsien in Kiangsi.
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UNYIELDING:
Paris, July 2.
The Matin states that because of the unyielding Russian attitude, the Franco-Soviet commercial negotia tions give us yet almost no results.
Havan
COUE DEAD.
Nancy, July 2 M. Emile Couc, the auto-sugges- tionist, is dead.-Reuter.
"Crowe, will be next you have murder many men so you die like You the dog you were you cur. don't think of the poor you have made auffer by your hanging ver- diets"
On the back of the envelope in which the threat was received was written; "If not delivered return to state's attorney's office."
One. resort, supposedly closed by "injunction, yielded' four stocks of dynamite, a shotgun and a rifle, a pistol in a holster carrying a forest park police star, six slot machines, 80 cases of ale, two barrels of ale, 15 jugs of Ave gallons ench, led
with wine, 11 drums of alcohol, 60 gallons each and a case and a half of champagne.
boats were effective Or not, where they were placed on board, or whether the only result of have ing them was to crush people.
A comprehensive resolution dent ing with the subject incidentally noted "with alarm the increasing practice of sending out the dis tress signal in circumstances which do not warrant its use." and called upon all Governments 10 CO- operate in immediately checking the dangerous abuse.""
Proposing a resolution that the
only remedy for the problem of double taxation was the acceptance by all countries of the principle that shipping should be taxed in the country of residence, Sir Alfred Booth said that in these days of high taxation this double burden. was a very serious obstacle to the revival of the trade of the world.
Mr. Runciman said they did not want to shirk or diminish the fall share of their proper contribution to taxation, but what they did object to was paying twice over.
Crime "Business" Enormous, Documents seized last night and
to-day in raids on the Torris-Cap one gang's fortified headquarters, the "Stockade" in Stickney, and in the dens of Clears, show that the Seeret Passages Found. Beneath the bar was found a Torrio-Capone gang, alone, has been small button, which operated a doing a business of $3,000,000, a iding panel, which opened into a year, netting $250,000 a month for place behind the hollow wall. This several years and without any was large enough to accommodato serious interference. The books three persons and there were rifle show that the "business" was holes through which they could divided along three "industries" command all of the barroom. These rembling, $100,000 a month; liquor. holes were concealed by small operations, $100,000 a month, and pictures.
vice, the purchase, abduction, salė and use, of white slaves, $50,000 a month.
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Upstairs were 26, rooms formerly GUEVARA READY TO ATTACK occupied by women habitues of the
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About a year ago a raid brought out a similar set of books, kept by a gang operating in what to outward appearances, were the offices of a physician, but one of the municipal judges ordered the documents returned.
place. These women were recruit ed In Chicago and other cities and Washington, June 20.-Pedro when the supply ran short through Guevara, Philippine resident com suicide or murder, the gangstera missioner, expects to denounce the would adopt the expedient of seiz- Bacon bill next week from the flooring some girl on the streets and of the house. He will call atten- forcing hor into slavery. In these tion to the alleged inconsistency of 28 rooms were numerous panels and Judge William V. Brothers, act- the Bacon bill. separating the Moro secret dopra janda gunder the ing chief justice of the criminal regions from the remainder of the costly rugs were trap doors. The court, who will charge the special Philippine archipelago. He assert-replaces could be swung out by grand jury when it assembles in ed that. Major General: Bates can touching a button, disclosing secret his court room to-morrow, declared cluded a truce with the Sultan of runways. It was a house in which he would caution, them to Investi- Sulu and pledged American pro-anything could happen and in gata all of Cook country's recent fection, but that the American peo- which, doubtless, many crimes have gang murders, and to afft them for ple through the Jones law pledged been committed.
relationship to the liquor traffic.) the independence of the Philippines. A raid on an Innocent looking The inquiry is to be the most He said the General Bates pledge store, fres of signs on its front searching ever prosecuted. In the was unauthorised and practically yielded to a squad of men working country and the jury wil høve repudiated, whereas the Jones law under Deputy Chief Stege a haul powers, under the charge to delve was approved by congress and the of 57 drums at pure alcohol and into any angles which appear in president of the United States. 47 five-gallon cans of the stuff their inquiry-Tribune"
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