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Tommy Christian And His Orchestra are playing during a three-month engagement at The Mounds Country Club, East St. Louis, Illinois, USA, operated by the notorious St. Louis gangster William Patrick 'Bow Wow' McQuillan.
With blues record sales falling, Victor Records place their final advertisement for a blues product in the Chicago Defender newspaper.
A front page headline in the New York Times declares "Innocent Girls Arrested", making public a developing scandal in which New York police have been arresting young women on false charges of immorality and prostitution, then demanding bribes to buy their freedom and save their reputations. Irving Berlin will be inspired by this scandal to write Torch Song for his 1932 Broadway show Face The Music.