City News Bureau of Chicago service reported on the scores of most high-school games in Chicago, but otherwise there was no sports coverage. The film "Call Northside 777", in which James Stewart plays a reporter whose articles free an innocent man from prison, was based on a story that originated at the City News Bureau. The City News Bureau broke the story of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, but, for once, didn't quite believe its reporter, Walter Spirko, and sent the following bulletin: Spirko continued as a Chicago reporter for many years, breaking a story of thieving policemen known as the Summerdale police
1929 Hebron massacre requested that bodies be exhumed to ascertain whether deliberate mutilation had taken place. But after 20 bodies had been disinterred and reburied, it was decided to discontinue. The bodies had been exposed for two days before burial and it was almost impossible to ascertain whether or not they had been subject to mutilations after or during the massacre. No conclusions could therefore be made. The Shaw Commission was a British enquiry that investigated the violent rioting in Palestine in late August 1929. It described the massacre at Hebron: About 9 o'clock on the morning of the 24th of August, Arabs