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1 GENERAL NEWS OF THE DAY 2 One relief worker was killed and six others Injured yesterday when a building at 3831 South State Street, Chicago, which they were demolishing in connection with the governments south side slum reclamation project, suddenly collapsed. The dead man was Louis Waliczek, 2923 Arch Street He died at the Chicago Memorial hospital just as a donor for a blood transfusion was entering the building to give him aid. Harold William Collins,-18 years old, was found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Judge Walter P. Steffen, at Chicago, Friday, of strangling his twenty-six day old baby because the infant cried and kept him i awake at night. ""Florida, this year, enjoyed a tourist business amounting to 600 million dollars, the "biggest and best" season since the boom days of 1925-26. Relaxation and recreation were sold, the state hotel commission officially estimated, to 1,750, visitors. This agency also calculated that the visitors, 250,-000 more this year than last, spent 625 million dollars during their stay in Florida. Alex McKay and Joe Kristy, San Quentin convicts who kidnaped members of the state prison board in a desperate escape attempt last January 16, were convicted Friday on eleven counts, two carrying the death penalty, by a superior court jury at San Rafael, Calif. There was no recommendation of mercy. Sponsored by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, hundreds of petitions were in circulation protesting the proposed new taxing of the film industry.
