On this date
As reported by the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Chicago Sun-Times:
City leaders gathered to take action to provide relief funds to Italians after a devastating earthquake hit Italy last week. The meeting was primarily called to select the local banks that are to be the depositories for the city's fund. Meanwhile, Congress appropriated $800,000 in immediately available funds to go to "the relief of Italian earthquake sufferers."
A 27-year-old worker, who took time off to murder his two children and beat his wife and his stay-at-home boarder with a shotgun, confessed to the crime to police. The suspect is John Pitrowski of the 5000 block of North Melvina. His wife, Anna, 23, is in Belmont Hospital with little chance of recovering from the beating she suffered. The boarder, John Panfil, has not been found. The slain children were Betty Anne, 3, and Johnny, 10 months. Betty Anne was beaten to death, and the infant was drowned in a bathtub.