Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1930, Page 29

HOME 15 BOMBED AS PROBE BEGING Chicagoan Blown From Bed. Grand Jury to Work Until Gangs Are Checked. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 12.—An ex- tortionist’s bomb splotched up the open- inc o( the grand jury’s investigation of g today. .Yu,st a few hours before the inquiry was called, the family of John Valen- tino was blasted from sleep by & bomb explosion. The home, on the West Side, was damaged. Demand $5,000 of Laborer. Valentino, & strect car company laborer, told police he had received let- ters threatening him with denlh unless he paid 85, oon to a man “who would approach him and ask for a_match.” ominent civic leaders—33 of them headed by Col. A. A. Sprague—support- ed State’s Attorney John A. Swanson in his drive to put racketeers on the legal Tack. Henry Barrett Chamberlain, operat- director of the Chicago Crime Com- gllon and Walter G. Walker of the Employers’ Association offered their files on rackets and racketeers to the nd jury today. The evidence of S? Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and John Fitgpatrick, head of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, was held over until Monday. Probe Must Check Racketeer. ‘Both Swanson and Chief Justice Mec- Goorty of the Criminal Court said the investigation would continue until business was no longer a prey of the racketeer. With organization nt the League Club of the “Commiitee 10!‘ Prevention and Punishment of Crime,” the racketeer, the hoodlum and the gangster were brought face to face with the wealth and power of civic in~ terests. Besides Col. Sprague, others on the committee include Julius Rosen- wald, Melvin A. Traylor, G. F. Swift, Fred W. Sargent and Joseph T. Ryerson. OPPOSES NOMINEE FOR RESERVE BOARD Senator Pine Protests Appointment Union | GUATEMALAN DECREE LIFTS STATE OF SIEGE Suspended Constitutional Guaran- tees Restored After Year Under Economic Precautionary Measure. By the Associated Press, GUATEMALA CITY, September 12.— The state of siege which was applied a year ago this month was lifted yves- terday by presidential decree. Consti- tutional guarantees, suspended at the same time, also were restored. When the state of siege (which is a modified form of martial law) was declared the government announced it was only a precautionary measure to permit development of certain proj- ects for betterment of the economic situation. A similar decree had been put into effect two years ago this month, the government alleging sedi- tious activities by the opposition. This was followed in January. 1929, by armed nutbreuu in several provinces. Nephew of Mrs. Ford Dies. ASHEVILLE, N. C.. September 12 (&), —G. Wallace Bryant, nephew of Mrs. Henry Ford, died here yesterday. Mr. Bryant had recently returned to Asheville from Detroit. He suffered a heart attack this morning and was re- moved to a hospital, where he died a few hours later. 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Senator Pine sald he would make a formal protest. ’:auwr l:l!:-xe sald dh:hbl.sed his op- lon on the groun: at the position should be filled by a member either from the tenth or eleventh Federal Re- serve district. He also claimed that Meyer is an “internationalist.” The Senator alleged that administra- tion of the act by men with viewpoints similar to that of Meyer “has resulted in special privileges to international bankers by giving preferred status to the credit in which they deal.” The farmer, under the law as now admin- istered, is without credit, he said. BURGLARY DEFINITION IS ASKED OF COURT Ensurers Fight Premium Payment on Grounds That Man Was Not Slain by Burglars, By the Associated Press. ‘The definition of burglary is at issue fn a case from Kenuctky which the lug:le Court has been asked to settle. Renaker was killed while he was at his home in Winchester on night of July 24, 1922. He had an Insurance policy which carried $6,300 for accidental death. 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