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August 24, 1931

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THREE LINED UP AND SHOT AGAINST WALL IN BROOKLYN BY GANG EXECUTION SQUAD; KIDNAPPED AT DANCE HALL Gunmen Force Victims Into Auto, Drive Them to Lonely Spot. VOLLEY KILLS EX-CONVICT Two, Critically Wounded, Crawl 50 Yards, Then Collapse-- Slayers Speed Off. FIRE LIKE MACHINE GUN'S Crime Committed on Eve of the Biggest Drive Against Thugs by City and Federal Men. Victims Seized at Dance Hall. Victims Lined Against a Wall. 3 LINED UP AND SHOT BY BROOKLYN GANG Wounded Crawl Away. Believe Machine Gun Was Used.

By Unknown Author

Slain, and M Leonardi and A Curmano wounded, when kidnappers line 3 up against wall and shoot them

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WICKERSHAM BOARD FREES FOREIGN-BORN OF BIG CRIME BLAME; Finds Them "Not Guilty" of Disproportionate Share of Lawlessness. SECOND GENERATION WORSE City Gang Activities Declared to Be Largely in Hands of Native Sons of Immigrants. RACIAL 'COLONIES' STUDIED Commission Includes sociologists' Survey in Its Fourteenth and Last Report to President. Dean Abbott's Opinion Cited. Effect of the Melting Pot. Racial Make-Up of City Criminal Gangs Surveyed in Wickersham Report Foreign Colonies a Problem. Special Study of Mexicans. Conclusions of Expert Study. New York Statistics Cited. Other Cities Confirm View. Effect in Second Generation. Family Case Reported. Finds Justice Still Lagging. Ratio in Organized Crime. Reports on Community Studies.

By Special to The New York Times

Wickersham Comm rept finds foreign-born not guilty of disproportionate share of lawlessness, but declares city gang activities are largely due to native sons of immigrants; racial "colonies" studied; E Abbott's survey; crime table

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Historical Events

Second MacDonald ministry

1931Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.[†]

The second MacDonald ministry was formed by Ramsay MacDonald on his reappointment as prime minister of the United Kingdom by King George V on 5 June 1929. It was the second time the Labour Party had formed a government; the first MacDonald ministry held office in 1924.