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Calla Cop
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By Charles Francis Coe
Eminent Criminologist and Author of
“Mr. * ** Gangster,” "Swag," “ Votes"
« + « and other startling crime stories.
KIDNAPERS AND
RACKETEERS
ARTICLE No. 2
HE man most publicized as an
! underworld character now re-
poses in Atlanta federal prison,
He is the notorious Scarface. He
went to prison not for bootlegging, or
for racketeering, or for narcotic traf.
ficking, or for gambling and vice rings,
or for murder. He went to prison be
cause he refused to divide with the
federal government the proceeds of
these modern activities. In other
words, his crime was evading the in.
come tax.
It is common knowledge that this
man had a revenue in good years not
far from $£150,000,000, Of that he kept
vast sums and paid vast sums, It is
the experience of this writer that the
crook who saves 20 per cent of his
gross revenue is a fortunate crook.
No crook operates without protection
if he operates with success. The cost
of that protection is invariably his
largest Individual item of operating
cost. My guess would be that it will
average 70 per cent of the gross,
With the passing of this
gangster one man was reported to
have assumed his pls the sud-
denly darkened sun. This man became
public enemy No. 1 as the
original possessor of that dubious dis
tinction relinquished it for reguls
clothes and a less fattening diet,
presumably, the new public enemy No.
1 should now be a financial giant, He
should, literally, be rolling In millions,
He took the place of Al Ca-
pone.
Jut prohibition is about gone.
The galloping gold of the “alky"” foun-
tain is missing. What becomes of the
successor to the mill of his ma-
Jesty the Scarface? Late reports had
him fleeing toward Mexico while in
his clutches writhed the victim of a
sensational Kidnaping Bootlegging
fails of its old profit. The king boot
legger turns to kidpaping. It seems
rather obvious that our earlier sup
positions are borne out by the facts
“King” Solomon of Boston built up
a revenue said to be about $100,000
a year. He started at
Recently he wal
spelled finis to his career
of the anger which slaughtered hin
is generally admitted not to have been
the old-time liquor feud but something
attributable to activities of a
more dire nature, Anyway, he
murdered In his night
Three mere boys were tried for
killing
There Is Chicago. There is Boston
A look at Detroit is interesting. De-
troit became a gang center because
of the proximity of Canada and handy
liquor. The infamous Purple gang
took root there and gave to history
some of its most desperate bandits
and killers,
Detroit's real start as an under
world haven was the business of run
ning booze over the roads to Chicago.
Then, as organization and protection
conspired to the more complete rout
of law enforcement, It cessed to be
necessary to run the booze. In Chi
cago they cooked alcohol in tenements
and brewed their own beer. Almost
immediately the Purple gang became
a murder trust. They hired out their
killers to pull jobs in other cities
Take St. Paul, Minn, There Is a city
never accused of harboring organized
gangs as we have come to know them.
Yet one of the recent sensational kid
napings took place there. Why?
Mark my words, it was not local tal
ent that perpetrated that crime. “The
boys” were called In for that. These
“boys” were recruited from the ranks
of the hungry bootleggers of Chicago
Their appearance in these new crime
centers proves that. They are com
mercial criminals, They will pull a
job at a flat rate.
Kansas City is a case in point.
“Pretty Boy” Floyd, who terrorized
the West as a Jesse James in modern
dress, started as a petty booze ped
dler in Kansas City. He attracted the
attention of local police and left town,
Shortly after he took to the smoking
pistol and went violent by way of
replenishing a vanished bootleg ex-
chequer. He kidnaped sheriffs and
used them as hostages to enforce his
maddened will upon the people.
Police in many cities, alarmed by
the spread of violent crime, are equip
ping to meet this condition. Armored
ears, trained machine gunners and ra-
dio equipment are being adopted.
These will win In the long run, not
because they are efficacious in the
extreme but because violent crime al
ways defeats itself. The willingness
to protect violent crime is lacking.
The same cop who winked at a bottle
of liquor will stand his ground over a
deck of heroin or a callous murder
for profit.
People know nothing of kidnapings
that never get Into the papers, This
writer knows of three cases of success
ful “snatches” In New York City, In
each case the victim of the kidnaping
was a criminal himself. Fe was
caught by others of his kind, ran
somed for whatever he had, and
turned loose to pile np another amount
for future consideration, Each time
these criminals, well aware of their
exact positions as hostages, paid
through the nose. One said to me:
“Did {| pay? Lay your last dime 1
master
wee In
OOD
as
ition
So,
Croesus
Just
ions
bootlegging.
lead thaty
The source
ked into hot
newer
was
club,
the
own
re
4
paid! I had thirty-five grand In bank
when they took me. They got it all
Only a sucker would fight them.”
Another case reported to me and
verified from sources I credit involves
a manufacturer of forbidden fruits
who paid one hundred thousand dol-
lars to kidnapers. These men actu-
ally marched him into his bank ard
stood by, pistols concealed In their
pockets, while the victim got the
money and handed it over in the
presence of the vice president of the
bank. The bank official, of course, re
mained unaware of the whole proce-
durée in its true significance.
“Why not fight back?" I asked this
victim. “You handed over the money
but you know who got it. Why not
fight?"
“I've a wife and children,” he an-
swered simply. “What's money, with
their lives at stake?”
Jack “Legs” Diamond was a boot-
legger. He was an interesting one in
that—to the best of my knowledge
he was the first of the tribe to lay
the urban problem on the suburban
doorstep. His trip Into the Catskill
mountains wrought not only his own
death but a series of crimes that left
that pastoral section in the throes of
terror.
Men were tortured on the highways;
others were kidnaped. The country
was roused to fever pitch, That sec-
tion preferred applejack to the so-
called liquors of their urban broth-
ers. Jack tried to control the appie
jack traffic, Deprived of bootleg mon-
ey, he had to replace It some way.
War broke out. Jack died broke. Only
recently his widow was found mur
dered in her bed.
“Dutch” Schultz, beer baron
York's Bronx, found things slip-
New
ping in his
of bootlegging
often ment
crimes of
fugitive, a cringing craven In
his life and a man for
and ander,
But he was a
business.
He
connection
that
vanished.
ioned In with
is a
for
violence now he
t fear
whom
has little
millionaire
world,
upper
but scorn.
the booze bouncing
when rr was good.
There is another traffic in the
derworld which
ably during
vilest, the most
un
has spread immeasnr-
prohibition, It is the
despicable, the most
insidious of all illegal
in narcotics,
it differs from booze
major features. First,
man ab it and will, as a de
cent cit what he can to stop
narcotic laws are
comparative
fortune In
transported
84
travel In
. and attrac
easier ths
¢ the
Fundamentally,
in two
erage
the av-
hors
zen, do
the traflic
forced with
ond, a
nay be
So en
ease. Sec
modest the polson
in a fountain pen.
narcotic pedd
fine tre
ATRINS,
lergs are
light
That
nsporting bot.
the
Use
attention
» or beer hy
the
is growing greater
of the bootiegwers of old are turning
to this to supply revenue, ‘his is
most violent I know, If
there Is to be a penalt it
should be for narcotics.
These cadets operate under an or
ganized ring. More and more they
become killers. Long terms are likely
to be the order for conviction of this
crime. Long terms do not deter the
eriminal; they make him more des
perate. This is not an argument
against long-term sentences. It mere
ly explains where the violence comes
from in the narcotic traffic,
New York City today is going
through a series of murders at once
ghastly and grotesque. In the metro
politan area some killings ha
occurred in a month. Four of the
men ki were to have been wit-
nesses In the trial of a gang leader
charged with tax evasion,
them has since been identified with
the narcotic traffic.
For several years the question most
often asked me has been: “What dif
ference does it
murder, so long as they murder only
each other? There you have the best
answer to that question I know. These
victims, all purported criminals of the
parcotic traffic Is great. It
, The more insidious
the crime
death
the sale of
ten
led
make
a narcotic addict and peddler, consti-
tute the only evidence the government
can use In court to destroy the vast
criminal rings that racketize the na-
tion. The underworld will tell yon
that all these men were murdered for
what they knew ; for what they might
testify in court that would lend itself
to corroboration,
In opening this article 1 pointed out
over which Scarface tribped. It was
the only one he was unable to beat,
Cook county, Illinois,
dise, The state was helpless against
him. The United States put him into
prison,
I want to make a point of that
again as a predicate for statements to
follow. Knowing literally hundreds
of criminals, I say earnestly and
truthfully that every intelligent one
shuns “federal raps” as he would the
plague. In the old days they avoided
counterfeiting because it was a fed-
eral offense. They robbed no post
offices and they avoided national
banks In their robberies. The one
fear of confidence men has always
been the malls,
“Don’t write anything erooked and
mall it,” I heard the most Infamous
of them say not long ago. “Getting
into the malls Is getting into a fed-
eral rap. That Is the hardest of all
to beat. Uncle Sam never forgets,
His arm goes from coast to coast. He
doesn’t extradite. He Just locks you
up wherever he finds you”
Unele Sam, and Uncle Sam alone,
is the hope for law enforcement in
this trying era of transition from pro-
hibition to repeal,
(©..1931, by North American N
Alliance, Ine. ~WNU Services,
ROADSIDE
MARKETING
By T. J. Delohery
TOURISTS A CASH CROP
HAT the tourist is a protitable cus
tomer for farm produce, prepared
food and spare rooms in farm homes
has been. discovered by thousands of
farm women.
In West Virginia, twenty-eight farm-
ers’ wives have formed an organiza-
tion called the Mountain State Tour
ists’ Home, This association, fos
tered by the West Virginia extension
service, adopted rules and regulations
governing the service and uses a unl
form sign which Is posted in front of
each member home.
Advertising folders, bearing the
name and location of each member as
each tourist season with the result
that members of the association have
experienced an Increase in business
during the six years of this co-opera
one to several days at these
last year. They came from 40 states,
England, Norway, Finland, Germany,
India, Korea, Philippine Islands,
Zone and Canada.
lates are uniform
lodging belug charged at
the state
£1.50 per
night for two persons, with breakfast
cents per and BO
for dinner and lunch,
“Our experience
a profitable mu
{| rooms
person cents
tourists are
ly for spare
is that
ket not ot
but for fruits, vegetables, eggs,
and ot things
here on farm.”
Priest of Franklin, W.
some fruit, especially
milk, honey, her
the
meats
it we produce right
| ald Mrs. Paul
Va. i buy
i iit and oranges:
sugar,
also cereal,
tea,
gploes
sy
“We
cofl ee, crackers, cocoa and
raise
corn,
cherries,
chicken, eggs, n and
find tourists like cur cured
and canned goods, They
i a special liking for mntry
ham.”
{i These Mount
Homes, scattered
West Vir
our own tomatoes, tomat
Juice, beets,
pears,
juice,
pork. i
ments
apples, peache
blackberries,
ntt
grape
on, veal
have
cot cured
ain State
Tourists’
state of
an eff
over the
ginia, are making ort
nennle sper
peanie spe
A West Virginia Farm Home,
tions In They are
{ pointing out the advantages of
| Ing and fishing, because of the large
{ number of sportsmen who get away
from the cities in the summer and fall
i to follow their favorite sports and who
{ Hire always eager to find good accom
modations,
one place also
hunt.
While West Virginia scenery
he tourist-catering
farm women,
practice of
| for both lodging and meals
it handier and more economical
Altoona, TIL, hasn't much attraction
insofar as the scenery (8 concerned,
but Mrs, George Stuckey puts up two
to three tourist parties a week in a
spare room of the large Stuckey farm
| home. Located in the quiet
of the country It 1s an ideal spot to
{ stop for the night.
Mrs, Fern Berry of Marion,
{gells a large amount of fresh garden
{ truck at a nearby tourist camp. Twice
a week Mrs. Berry fills the car with
{ red beets, carrots, green onions, rad-
ishes, corn, cabbage and cucumbers.
| Potatoes in two-pound bags, enough
for one meal, sell well as do her
canned goods and horseradish. Prices
are gauged according to city retail
| levels,
Seven acres on a side road doesn't
sound attractive from a profit-making
| standpoint, but Mrs. Grace B., Baertsch
| of Baraboo, Wis, had made it, with
{| the aid of her kitchen, giving them a
living and cash in the bank. Mrs
Baertsch sells eggs, poultry and
{ cooked food to a tourist camp some
distance away during the summer
months, and by good salesmanship has
made many of the same people buy
her eggs, which are sent by mail to
their city homes, during the winter
months, Her egg money runs as high
helps
business for these
visitors are making a
stopping In the country
YVR
They find
Mich.,
not charge as much as the traffic will
hear-that Is, Mrs, Baertsch attempts
to take a premium through the season
instead of following the heavy jumps
nnd recessions of the market,
No end of farm women, knowing
their town sisters don't eare to bother
with big dinners on Sunday and that
city people have a hankering for a
good farm-cooked dinner, have made
u specialty of this service, Customers
are made largely by local advertising;
also by neing boys to pass out cards
announcing the business,
Following the same thought some
farmers with gardens and other
sources of food such as flocks of poul-
try, canned meats, a small orchard or
a inke on the premises, have built
tourist cottages so that they not only
can attract the food and outing trade,
but offer sleeping accommodations for
tourists and city folks who care to
spend the night.
© 157%, Western Newspaper Union,
Howe About:
Politicians
Germany
A Near Masterpiece
By ED HOWE
HAVE been reading another old
book telling of the days when kings
were supreme, With a few courtiers
distributed in various parts of the
country, the old king not only owned
the land, but the farmers cultivating
ft: If an autocrat,
gaw a pretty farm girl, he
home with him. Onge the
engaged In war for thirty
years, and few of the country people
took
fertilizer.
While very indignant because of the
manner in which country people (my
class) were treated, a
ealled, and 1 expressed surprise that
in any age the people, always in
majority, submitted to such indignity.
The caller, a lawyer, replied that the
once
politicians of today rule the people
more absolutely than did the kings of
olden time Our modern he
sald, are on a scale of extravagance
the old sutocrats never dreamed of
The the people now,
the lawger sald, Is more surpris
than the
moderns
turies of teach
obtained by
Conscription of
service In foreign
fect
talk
men th
taxes,
submission of
ing
old. since
submission of we
have had the benefit of cen
f
ng of the relief to be
revolution,
mer
ag tamely
Hus
arted to sprea
we We
these h
the polit
Germans
don
eramer
monar
(er
its
band
cen
fered
everyt
hit 1
charg
ros
ghiniild be
The English:
I have
the wi
canlay
intelliger
or
the top In
Many years 1
ure of democracy
because of the politic
ent condition
trophe he
American ca
ghame. 1 do not say monarchy
remedy, but 1 do say TROY
the final word In
speare,
is 80 mu¢
predicted that an
¥ a
nnot ren
dem
swernment
I have lately .
woman entitled: Routh
der,” Itisna
erwise 1 should proclaim it a m
best wuntry
or
Scribner
Moon Un
little dir in spots; «
plece equal to the
of the Seandinavians Russians.
The book is
this dignified publisher
the woman to cut out the
weakens It. 1 cannot understand
Without It. Moon Under”
wonld have had a life of hundreds of
The story the
est of the Florida na and Pe
Buck's stories of Chinese farmers
not come anywhere near equaling it
I read it with delight at a sitting, but
fusued by
did not
filth which
“South
concerns poor
arl
do
tives,
uses words in her book she cer
realism In years almost ruined
. . .
posed to “run around”
disturbed by the fate of
quiet man whose home and
airplane,
(not many are wounded in
The machine was tri-motored; that
is, It had three separate engines, It
has been claimed by the advocates of
progress that if two of the three en-
gines In such a machine should fail,
the pilot could safely land with one.
equal loss of life within as many days,
One of them was carrying a basket
ball team hurrying to another game.
Shall we keep up the speed and
slaughter, or should we slow down to
the safety now being recommended by
God Almighty In everything else?
.« * =»
More nonsense {8 written about what
is called the mind than about any-
thing else.
.- * »
Silerius said in his memoirs he was
a hard fighter for his rights with wom.
en, snd that he regarded such active
ity as proper duty. “I have known
men who were too patient hinds with
wives,” he wrote, “and thus retarded
their advance as citizens, The asso
ciation of men and women Is warfare,
and a husband should be a good sol
dier both in commanding and in cbey-
ing.”
© 1923 Bell Syndicate WNL Service
RS
Points for Pas stry ‘Makers
Above All Things, One Matter of Importance Is to Be
Remembered, and After That the Rest Will
Be Found Comparatively Easy.
The “fine art” of pastry making
in succinctly set forth In the foliowing
article, by an acknowledged expert:
The other day a woman said to
me: “1 just can't make pastry]
can make good cake, but I just can’t
make a decent ple!” “Well,” I an.
swered her, “1 ean guarantee to teach
you to make pastry, in ten minutes,
ut the most.” She took me up ou my
offer. We left the bridge table for
the kitchen and within ten minutes
the pastry was chilling in the re
frigerator.
You know
the easiest
make, There
important,
skins and dress them with brown
butter, or black butter, as the French
say, Corn on the cob, If the ears are
small, will take only five minutes to
bol., nnd the chops will cook in eight
to ten minutes, depending upon their
thickness, You may use either a
french dressing or mayonnaise with
the salad. Should you not have time
to bak. a pastry shell, stop at a »pear-
by bakery on your way home and
select any of the many delicious
fresh fruit tarts now offered.
Orde of Preparation.
pastry and chill
Ww Be for potatoes.
and boil.
really
the
pastry
is one of
Prep:
things In
world to Boil
is only point
and that Is not to
get It too wet when you mix It. Per
haps I had better begin at the be
ginning, however, and tell you just
how | do It 1
times as much flour ak | have
ening. 1 prefer bread flour,
for pastry because It is
handle, but I can make it
¥ cake flour, If 1
four
shortening.
which He
Light oven
Prepare salad
Prepare and
Husk corn
Cook chops
i
inke
three B
Cook corr
auort Peel potatoes
myself, Make coffee,
easier to
one rape potatoes
ig very
y and chill
sugar peaches
and boll water for It
tart shells,
exactly use
and
dress
with pas Raisin and Nut Pie.
vi pn
do use this
use
uch fio
P al gether in a
ii 11a ed short
bladed {
i
tr
kind o
n
fl
wooden
and butter
yolks, Stir In
nit, rs
d in
1i8iNN
the be
nto |AGCS
ted rind
IZar Cook
constantly,
The American Woman
layers, rican men do
wt. sot fully apprecia the beauty of
yained for
the “Amer
feminine
jower cru
st on press the
and cut then
dge of the
put the other or top
1 evenly
may
crits together
with a scissors. If ene
bind
pasty or
rust a igi Ar
upper crt and turn | ack
Press the edges |
|
of the
your fingers or |
you like you
the edge with a thin strip of
lower
han the
on top
ords of none other
Argentine painter,
The
al side
“l was
ival in New York
hich
ng are accept
SH TO
artist
4 ir} of our lad for 1 aid:
together tightl ,
Surprise
1
i
the manner In w
ire to cur | on uy arn
to let the | tO
hus prevent the sirup | who or
the |
1
{| firacticalily
pract a
the prongs of Be mi
we One
slits In 1} 48 f the pie HO women
steam we had everyth
tions with
ir brave
How do
has ‘the
1
: ¥ fof T" das 1 3
from making way out at ing changed material condi
no chance in the
edges no change in 3
try shell as the |! and gay enjoyment of life
pan, as It keeps a | you Americans say it? She
After the pastry has | stafl”."—Pathfinder Magazine,
been trimmed around the edge with
a sharp knife it should pricked |
all over with a fork to pre t erack
ing during the baking. Pastry should |
have a hot but after ten min-
utes the heat should be lowered for |
a fruit or custard ple. Fresh fruit!
ples and tarts are very popular just |
Pastry shells are filled with the |
fresh fruit or with berries
which are then covered with whipped
“glare.” Sometimes
I like to bake a pas
onteide of a ie
better shape
be
Oven.
now.
sliced
cream or with a
pie shells are filled with a custard
filling and fresh fruit is beaten In
the whipped cream which is used to
cover the custard,
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Quick Meal.
Lamb chops
potatoes
butter.
Corn on the cob.
Lettuce and tomato salad
Peach tarts, Coffee
sweet with brown
Boiled
Here Is a quick meal for that cool
night which comes upon ns ence in
a while at this season, and even for
a hot night it does not take a large
amount of time in a hot Kitchen,
Sweet potatoes, as you know, youl SEND YOUR SONG roew Wi
more quickly than white potatoes and | For publication agreement, ree a Yies
need only to be scraped before they RP ain. Senn lion.
are put in the boiling salted water.
When they are cooked peel oft the
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tests and soothes the face while you are Shaving
and leaves the skin free from any tight, dry
afterfeeling. The perfect Evry Cream for
sensitive skins.
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