Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...themselves into the papers only by periodic squabblings with their rivals, the On Leongs. Last week, the Hip Sing Tong made news in another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework of a nationwide narcotics ring doing $1,000,000 worth of business a year...
...Government officials give the signal to draw in the net last week. New York and Brooklyn provided the biggest haul-five Tong members, ten of their white friends, and one extraneous Chinese. Two Tongmen were arrested in Chicago, one Yee Haim, ex-national president of the Hip Sings in Pittsburgh, two in San Francisco, and two-Chin Joo Hip and Chin Joo Hip Jr.-in Butte. Perimeter of the wide circle of underworld associations of which Chin Joo Hip was the hub appeared to be tangent to an even more notorious crime ring. One of the four women caught...
...Bulletin Index is a pert weekly published in Pittsburgh and mainly concerned with Pittsburgh affairs. Last week its editors printed an indignant story (which they privately regarded as a great scoop) about a scientific "miscarriage of justice" which was incidentally an outrage to Pittsburgh's civic pride...
Remaining girls in the cast are Joanne Sterne from Radcliffe "Idlers" Club Virginia Leach from the same organization, and Peggy Eastell, who came from Pittsburgh to play in "Straight Scotch." Extra parts will be filled by members of the club, girls from dramatic schools in Boston, and debutantes of the present season...
...second successive week, Pittsburgh defeated a team that had defeated awesome Minnesota. In the fourth quarter, Pittsburgh scored two touchdowns, downing "Biff" Jones's undefeated Nebraska team...