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Winnipeg, Aug. 8.-Hunting bandita by acroplang is the latest development of police mothods here. An aeroplane equipped with a machine-gun and carrying armed detectives yesterday cover- ed a large area of Southern Mani- toba, searching the roads in an endeavour to locate a motor-car which was reported to have been seen with five armed bank ban- dits.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1928.

CHICAGO AND CRIME.

PUBLIC AT MERCY OF THE "BOSS."

CASUALTIES IN WAR.

R. A. M. C. AND NEW CONDITIONS.

Big Tim Murphy, a prominent The formation of an Armoured member of Chicago's underworld, Field Ambulance for the Armoured was shot dead while his wife. was Force is the problem sot, the at n church festival with their Medical Authorities on Salisbury little daughter. On her return Plain.

were

the widow, confronted with her Recently exercises have taken husband's body in the hall, de-place on the Plain which clared that if she knew who did specifically planned to try a schema it she would handle him herself. designed to show how in certain cir- Big Murphy was interested in cumstances casualties might bo col- the Retail Cleaners and Dyers' locted from the Armoured Force Union; and it is alleged tant since and transferred to "First Aid" or his release from gnol, after sery-dressing stations.

The Experimental ing a torm for a mail van robbery,| ho had been endeavouring to oust Force has been responsible for a the present leaders of the Union multiplication of problems, tactical and other. Towards the satisfac- at "the platol point:

tory solution of these problems a considerable advance has been made.

The Retail Cleaners and Dyers Calon forms part of a bigger or- ganisation which obtains from its members, and therefore, from the general public, the sum of about 1,500,000 dollars (£300,000) an- nually. Members are required

Armoured

Apart from the question of fuel supply, which is one of the more tion; there is the equally important important problems awaiting solu

to pay two dollars monthly and question of the evacuation of ten dollars yearly, and if anybody machine to eliminate distance and casualties. The ability of the declines to join his property to effect surprise and Its imper mysteriously catches fire or he leviousness to fatigue are valuable Het upon by persons unknown and factors in war. "beaten up."

was in.

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The problem of physical durance is one that cannot be neglected, and the collection and treatment in war of the wounded. and the removal at the earliest op portunity of the fallen, demand for this new machine measures of an exceptional character.

It is stated that recently Big Murphy walked into a meeting of Thà executive with a gang of gun- men and "sluggers," backed the leaders against the wall with guns in their faces, and told them that in future they were out and he Confronted by the guns, The "racketeers" assented, Three weeks later Murphy was shot.

'Considered only from the ques- "I knew very well that it was tion of morale, it is imperatively going to happen," a man told, me necessary that something should be the morning afterwards. "I knew done to assure men who are sealed Murphy as well as I know the men up in a steel chest that equally who did it. But I didn't warn aequale arrangements are made him. When he entered the racket for them to give medical atien- he took on, that risk. It is part tion as is provided for other units. of the game, and it was not for me to interfere."

Saving the Police Trouble, This shows the altitude of most people in Chiengo towards the daily murders. They concern the underwork, and the underworld alone. Gunmen shool gunmen and save the police trouble, only rarely are honest ellizera hurt, though highway robbery is of nightly occurrence.

This is one of the difficulties which arlas in connexion with the méchanisation of the Army which are not readily apparent to those who have no direct responsibility for the change. The Vickers Medium Tank, with its maximum speed of 16 miles an hour and a circuit of action of 150 miles on one fill of petrol, is the kind of in- trument most likely to fall through the sudden or perhaps the gradual distress of the crew,

At all times there is some danger of asphyxia from the fumes, of sick- neas from the violent and irregular motion of the vessel, or concussion due to unexpected plunging and the restricted area of movement in- side this armoured shall,

In England maladministration at the City Hall would bring swift. nemesis. The electora would turn out the council and elect a new one. But this cannot be done in Chicago. The city is divided into wards, and each ward The problem is not easily solved. Is in charge of a political, boss. The Medical Authorities aro mak Every municipal appointment, Ining every effort to overcome the that ward, from that of a street difficulties that are presented, and sweeper to a judge, la munde with special tasualty" exercises have the goodwill of the ward hoss. been carried out by Armoured Every man so appointed holds units with a view of assisting a de. his place through the favour of claton as to what is possible to be the boss and is expected not only done in the way of organising a to vote for him but to round up Field Ambalance for a force which about a dozen other rates, Ais so peculiarly situated in its re ward, therefore, in which therelation to the other arms of the Ser- are 200 employees ean rely

an vice. about 2,000 votes A & start. Many independent electors will not trouble to votu, and those who do will be about, equally divided, so that the political machine al- ways-or nearly always-wins.

Naturally the bosa protects his friends, and should one of them have the misfortune to be caught in the commission of a felony wheels are set revolving and the man la either released before trial or aequited.

VANISHED OIL PAINTINGS.

MUNICIPAL CURATOR IN A QUANDARY.

The eurnior of the municipal art gallery at Plymouth ia quandary.

in a

Many years ago five oil paintings The City's Splendloor. wern lent to the Corporation for exhibition, and the owner has now Every honest man deplores the applied for their return, but, al- systent, but no one sees any pre- though the promises have been sent remedy, "People have been searched from top to bottom, the too busy getting rich," they say, paintings cannot be found they "to trouble about civic affairs, | have simply vanished without trace. We have turned our homes and What the upshot of the matter offices into palaces, and retained will be remains to be seen, but the a public administration long over case affords clear proof of the wis- ripe for the scrup heap."

dom of the decision recently come The extraordinary thing is that to that an inventory shall be made with a government based on cor- of the entire contents of the muni- ruption and overshadowed by cipal museum and art gallery.

It Is suggested that there ought crime, Chicago should, every day, grow in splendour and beauty, to be at all museums and art gal- No elty in the world offers its leries a periodical stocktaking, such children greater opportunities in as is carried out at business estab education, although education islishments.

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The familiar outlines of Oxford motor drives, gardens and yacht

and Cambridge Colleges are to be basins extending along the lake-GOOD

seen on the University campus aide for a distance of 20 miles- here, and inside them some of the the entire length of the city. are bathing best brains of the country are Along this drive Leaching. The Art and Field benches, which will accommodate Museums are renowned through- 250,000 people.

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