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& CHIGAGO STILL IN _ TROUBLED STATE Dist. Attorney Warned by Phone He Will Be Bombed Chicago, March @ Mors threats of bombings, mor: bullets, more pleas for federal prorection at the April 10 primary polls peppered politics in Chicago today United Siates Dist George . Johnson, an of Sena ed by telephone that d been marked for a bomb. A report that a political | meeting of Cirenit Judge Swanson was to be broken up by spread alarm and then b its own momentum. the me ing held without incident. Shoot Bailify inicipal court bailiff w ard worker for th neen for Thompson Crowe, was wounded by on agents who ra street, near §7th The torch was added to the eago killer's repertoire when a mar whose name is believed to have bect Marchese was shot down and then burned after gasoline had been pour €d over the hody. A card in th man's purse carried the name Paul Marchese. That is the family name of the widow of Diamond Jor Espo- sito, Deneen worker slain nine days | ago. From Washington came word that | Attorney-General Bargent had receiv- ed the request of United States Mar- shal Palmer Anderson for authority to deputize additional marshals prim ary election day, and that he would study the facts before making a de- cision. Anderson made public a portion of the message sent the attorney gen- ttorney Appoint and shot 1 seriously of a doz federal aloon at State Cl find etrong Indications of a| eonspiracy to prevent honest elec. tions in a large number of precincts | in Chicago and surrounding terri- tory,” he sald. fear that unless strong preventive measure are taken, serious trouble may eccur and that danger of the free expression of pub- lic suffrage in the election of a fed- eral public ofticer may result. (A United States senator is to be nom- inated). “I recommend that you give m authority to appoint speclal deputy marshals. “Representatives of political fac- tions have come to me with storles of former conspiracies to prevent fair elections, and they say the s uation today is even more serious than in previous election or prima- ries where faderal officers have been chosc The slaying of Marchese and the| shooting of George Beatty, the bail- iff were not given any direct con-} nection with the trouBlous political | situation created by the conflict be tween the Deneen and ™ Thompson Crowe factions. The name Marchese | suggested the Diamond Joe slaying and thus a political connection | thfough Diamond Joe's fricndship | for 8enator Deneen Mysterious Affair The shooting of Beatty was made mysterious by determination of the federal men to handle the affairs in- dependent of police. The agents, headed by G. F. Gold- ing, chief of the general investigat- ors who are presumably working di- rectly out of Washington, arrived at the saloon armed with ols, shot- guns, eledge hammers and a ma- ehine gun. Beatty and his wife, who had dropped into the place from & political meeting, believed the place was being held up. Mrs. Beatty later | said that she and Beatty started for the back door. “Someone shouted to us to stop.” ohe said, “but we were afraid to.| Then there was a shot, and my hus- band fell.” When police ,answering a riot call, seached the place they were rcfused | entrance by the federal men. Al scond equad with & patrol wagon followed. Beatty, with a bullet wound in his left side, was placed in the patrol wagon and taken under | federal guard to a hospital. Golding's Story | Golding’s story was that Beatty | fumped up and began firing. “Two | ot my men had to shoot back in self | defense,” he sald. “But it's none of | the police's business. We can handle this at the federal building.” | The record on the police blotter | says that Beatty was “shot by un- known prohibition agents. Golding said Beatty would be charged with obstructing justice and | resisting officers. | Mayor Thompson, informed of the effort to bring federal officers into the city for election day, said he had o objection “if those marshals are sent to uphold the law.” Benator Deneen came from Wi ington yesterday and took charge of the campaign for the faction under | his banner. Judge Swanson, l‘andi-i date for state's attorney and a vie- | tim with Senator Deneen of hombers Monday, said he would continue his campaign despite renewnd threats. Judge Swanson's sympathizers were | obliged to guarantee an Elmwood Park church against bomb last night after scveral Insura compantes had refused, The church was the one in which Judge Swanson spoke and which, it had heen re- ported, was to he bombed 1f the meeting were held - Ftate's Attorney Crowe, in a n broadcast address, declarcd that crime was decreasing in ¢ 0. P'o- lce Commissioner Hughes said re- cent bombings were “manufactured material for political purposes.’” He s61d he ecould sce little hope of im- mediate golution of ] problem, pointing out in such cases “is almost impossible 1o get.” Plesiosaurus Bones Dug Up in England Harbury, England, Mar. 30. (F- Wear the spot where the prehistoric remaing of an ichthyosaurnus 4iscoversd fn 1805, a workman's pick has uneartied . three-eved plesi pre-historie mon: be between 100,000,000 000,000 years ol Professor W. Natural History don, who ls cxamining the bones of a another . estimated to and 200, Ewintdn of the museum of Lon- fossil, | Hungarian and which is 16 feet long, declares it to be a rare exampl: because the head is attached. “Generaily,” he said, “the head is missing. One theory for this roving dinosaurs, who were ivorous hunters used to eat ad or dying saurians they found, nd rally detached and lost the head NEW AIRPORT TO OPEN Louis, March 30.—(UP)—The East St. Louis Airport, now construction, will be ready to open on April 8. Contracts have heen let for the first hanger, office and classroom building and the airport cafe. Other contracts will be Jet within the nest few days, Clyde Brayton, a flyer at Lam- bert-St. Louis Flying Ficld with a record of $00 hours in the air with- out accident, has b appointcd ficld manager and chief pilot. There will six or seven new airplanes from Lambert Ficld at the new field and about 25 more m under construction will be in 60 days st available Paris, Ma B0 (UP)—It was a ob for the official musicians of the French government xactly is the Afghan national an- them, which had to be played on the arrival of King Amanullah and his consort and at every function which they attended. Finally the mu; mingled the national airs of Hawalf zibar with a little German melodies, and everybody was sa SLOT MACHINE MAPS Stockholin, Mar, nated guide maps, which upon the insertion of a coin in the slot reveal large scale street plans of the city, have been placed in eeveral rail- road stations in Sweden. maps show the location of ings, others indicate transportation routes. A one-minute glance at the map costs about three cents. FOR YOUR WANTS chines now | o discover what | ns found a compromise. They | ®—1llumi- | Some | bufld- | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928. ATLANTA GONVICTS * WORK AS FARMERS Prisoners Allowed to Cultivate’ (Gardens Atlanta, March who behave themselves, iave a better time the F Penitentiary than anybody else. Several hundred prisoners con- tinuously are kept weeding hoeing, planting and tending livestock out on the prison farm, six miles from | the walls and many more from pris- |on atmposhere. ! A visit to the farm in carly spring reveals the bustle consistent with the season. Down in the lowlands, half a hun- dred blue denim-garbed wide hats, click their hoes a sweet potatoes, sugar cane, peanuts and corn for fodder. In the barns the goes on. | Only prisoners with good records {are selected for service on the farm. | All are honor bound. No walls keep |them from escape—no guns warn {them. There are certian confi !but the thousand-acre estats is big cnough. According to | Rogers, who has charge | most of the prisoners ar 2 sections of the south, versed in crop culture, hog raising and farming ways. Once in a while a “city fellow,” | who because of ill heaith, is rec- ommended to the farm, finds his way there. He soon becomes less a no vice—learns how to milk—mak: up, drive horses, feed ¢ |ens and the like. | Earl Carroll was onc of the latter type. Nearly all fresk vegetables, pork, cggs and butter used inside the under | Farm- will ral 30 (UP)— usual routine | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | penitentiary proper, come from the | Thus 3,000 men are the con- | | tarm. sumers of its products. an white buildings—large white parracks with wide open windows and sides for the warm summer time—are in the center of the plan-| tation. cattle low. Big barns with room for and horses stretch down be- Great pens for hogs—and wide nges for them are in a grove. It is | a typical huge Georgia plantation, «nd with little of the appearance of | an institution. A man “in” for 20 vears for em- ement may call “chick, chicl nother, serving a term for rob- carcfully cull over the ment for his pigs. cracker may tend ter-pumping machinery. Most of the prisoners n are short-term ones. The ge of those 1pe ble. Nearly t obey their promise not confines of the farm SOUTH AFRICA FLOODS ‘ape Town, South Africa, 10 (P—Alarm was felt in Cape pro- vine today as steady rainfall assum- d torrential proportions and floods developed. Dams burst, raiiroad the wa- on the 100 per to leave who es-| March | 1 town isolated. 1 urcas had been for as long a |lines washed out a Many of the afflic cken by drought period as five years The irrigation dam near Prince | Albert, which was built at a cost of | §250,000, and was dry for five years, was reported to have been destroyed. | The bursting of a dam washed | v the railroad over which the | Euarl of Athlone, the governor gen- |eral, was traveling in a special train | to the native territories, holding it | up near King Williams Town. | Railway embankments were wash- ed away in other places and towns cut off. “TINTS USED IN HOSIERY | London, March 80.—(UP)—A | heavy increase in the demand for | women's flesh-colored _ artificial | stockings is contributing to the world | shortage of tint, Lionel Holland. | | chairman of the Associated Tin | Company of Nigeria, declared at a | | recent meeting of the company. | It may surprise some women to | know that the so-called golden | sheen of some stockings is really a ! tin one he declared. “Tin is play- ing an important part in the manu- | | facture of all artificial silk lingerie.” BBINS, 1 MsVBSSON 3 2 i “Successors te_G1! 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