Show CHICAG n NAVE DECLARED VITAL Al EMERGENCY Slaying pf of Assistant State Attorney U Brings Gang Situation to Climax PROSECUTOR C CROWE OWE TELLS OF THREATS Petition Relates Alarming Increase se of Murders in in City a and d County C CHICAGO April April 30 AP AP-An AP An order for the impaneling of ot ofa a special grand jury to investigate the slaying of William II H l gin young assistant states state's attorney attorney ney and all other gang killings and crime conditions In Chicago and surrounding suburbs was granted Robert E E. E Crowe states state's attorney today by William V. V Brothers act act acting big ing chief justice of ot the criminal court Crowe ve presented a petition re rev revealing revealing re- re v aHng that threats s had been made against his life to kidnap his children children chil chil- dren urea and to bomb his hom home R Recent cent months have recorded in Chicago and arid Co Cook k county an Increasing in increasing increasing In- In creasing number of ot gang murders the prosecutor said In his petition The combination of ot high speed automobiles sawed off oft shotguns and high powered rifles rilles operated to quickly murder and Immediately es escape escape escape es- es cape has produced in hi this coni- coni a reign of terr terror r. r More lore recently these vIcio vicious s gangsters have brought conditions to such sucha a a point that they have have- re repeatedly repeatedly re- re made threats upon Pop the life of ot the states state's attorney and mu much h more terrible to contemplate they have threatened t to kidnap and nd kill the children of ot th the states state's attorney attorneyS and bomb his home Further the the more active assistant assistant assistant assist assist- ant states state's attorneys have lave been threat threatened ned in inthe the same manner Previously y the threats had be ben been n regarded as mere mere Idle words sal said Crowe while the states state's attorneys attorney's ys y's P e cJ d iJ i t bated t d zeal zea C- C Jr Now ho however ever it is ismy my tn most st p painful duty to to advise this court that an assistant states state's attorney attorneyS S a has been slain by gang murderers murderers murderers mur mur- using an automobile and a machine gunThe gun The untimely demIse of ot the late William assistant states state's attorney evidences the ex exIsting existing ex- ex public p emergency ncy I |