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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-02-09, Page 37TWT w 9. THUGS BOSS CHICAGO Bandits of Business who Profiteer at Pistol Point—Astonish ing Revelations of a New Crime Game that is Earn ing Princely Loot for Chicago’s Underworld. U .. iiibi; r m-mnr-nw A SORDID RECORD The following are what acutally is •Chicago. An eniment Canadian re iki r nod recently from this City of Crime and certified the following stories to the editor of this page and' L told tales even more unbelievable. Bji] ^rRona whistled blitbelv as he turned into his home street In the crowded tenement quarter of Chica go’s North Side. It ivas a lovely evening. Bill was going to take his wife to a movie as soon , as he had washed, changed and eaten. His pay en velope, fat with dollar bills—Bill was •a dental mechanic—snuggled in his trou0^’’ pocket. Suddenly, as he passed a side street, six men who had been standing chat ting at the corner, turned and leaped1 on Bill Jiko a trained getllng their man. Down went Bill, on spreadengled, and two bls back. And Bill howled, abruptly, horribly, like an animal in agony. He lay there twisted up, howling. The men had vanished. Onlv a big, black car sneecl’ng down the street hinted that tl>ev might have been on the spot a few moments back. >>.„ m-n-ivd ennin running, they found only a man on the ground with 'his hands smashed to a pulp.. A rain of swift, fierce blows with _ ‘ lean steel- .crowbars, wielded by a couple of muscular specialists in this ■particular operation, had reduced Bill P"........ '"—'I r> onmniofo artisan, who would always earn his good weekly wage, to a helpless creature depen dent on obnritv for the job which is •given, for humanity's sake, to a hand loss man. Bill was mn4mod for life. I-Ie would never mould wax or lift a tool again. This 's'nistor little real-life story— was to’d in the Chicago police courts two examples of taking place in football scrum his face, arms men knelt on it was to’d in the Chicago police co-urts a month ago—souiuls like the tale of a so would bo splashed all over the news papers next day. But what, I11 fact, occurred? The nolice court audience almost yawned when Bill, just out of hos pital, ghastly pale, Aveak, his broken 'harnbi in bandages, told his story. One cop, muttered to his pal: “They’re slick, these- guys. If they go on at this rate there won’t be a tooth-pudder’s parlor left open in town.”- , And the newspaper reported that another dental mechanic had had his bands broken because lie refused to join what purported to be a dental nmohanie’s trade union. That was Bill’s crime. He had’said he was all right, and refused to sign tho membership form of a fake trade union organized by crooks who had hit r.nni) a noAv.Avay of making easy money. A tot of other dental mechanics had < ' made the same mistake, and Bill was Iho eighteenth to pay the penalty of obstinacy. But the union is filling up pretty quickly now. As the pplico can’t pre lect them, tho denial fiiechanlcs think it wiser to pay tribute to the under world. | The Brains of the Gang long as they pay tribute, in t’m of regular union fees, thev’ro For the lords of the under- ni-n, above all. business-like, won’t kill the goose that lays s fantastical .vengeance, something pnv.'ga pud unheard-of that it T’ « petition, becauee the saloon proprie- tors' association got its numbers, aniL the members had to sign an agree-! meat to get certain brands of liquor fr'm <>n pprnyed" firm. Schrager, was the "approved" firm, | Schrager Is dead now. They turn ed a machine gun on him—one of the first to be imported into Chicago for gang use—from an upper window as he passed in his car ono day, and per forated him like stamp paper. The four survivors of his body guard of six armed thugs bowed to the force of circumstance, and took service under the gang chief who had so neatly exterminated Schrager. The police and let it go. have enough cruder gangs’ and similar knew the whole plan, They always do. They trouble keeping the fro'm .highway robbery blatant outrages on Chicago’s helpless millions, without worrying about gang feuds. “Let 'em shoot up one another," say the police chiefs. “It’s so many thugs less, and if they keep on at It long enough'’ they’ll clean the city up for us.” ! But Schrager's ideas lived on. Eiv lightened lords of gangs begin to ease a FOUR NATIONALITES COMPETE AT SUVRETTA An Alpine resort that have special arrangements to entertain the youngsters Claim for Seizure'of Ship Settled After 115 Years .Fur Bearers’ Knell i’3 Elephants Rung Prematurely, ! With One Rifle Old Trappers Insist ” ” Wild Life in Northwest De clared to Show Consist ent Increase Despite Big Slaughter For Pelts Searle.-—The widespread demand (for funs has led many newspapers and m-aigazines to predict a speedy end for the wild life supplying tho pelts, but those who are familiar to the ro' gions whence comes the skips believe that the oldest industry of mankind will last as long as mankind lasts. The buffalo was nearly extermin ated when/ small herds were segre gated in national parks, beavers were on the wane when game laws came to5' their protection, sea otter hadi diisap-, _ _ t ___v ___ pea red entirely when Parliament de-, then started to ascend the opposite dared a closed period on this fur-, bill. One hunter saw that the de bearer and the fur seal in the north phants were l'ikely to croos a tiny Pacific became the beneficiary of an. opening in the tall -grass abo-ut 250 international protectorate. yards away. He fixed his rifle in the By Ugandan Ranger First? Wounded Mortally by Bullet* Plunges Down a Slope and Sweeps Two Others to Destruction Entebbe, East Africa.—Three huge elephants bagged with one rifle shot! That is th© prize hunting story of tho tall ©rasa, country of Unganda. In credible as it ,may seem, one *gamo ranger, an employee of the- Uganda government game department, made this remarkable kill with the expendi ture of a single round of .256 am munition. It was in a district where thousands cif elephants roam. A herd, after a stern chase by government hunters, disappeared into a deep valley and! international protectorate. yards away. He fixed his rifle in the The result is that the buffalo has-fork of a convenient tree and waited, multiplied from a few hundred to! many thousands in Canada, and some in’ the U.S.; beaver colonies are every- i where and the animals encroach so near to civilization in many states as, to. become nuisances; sea otters are! numerous along the islands of the! # -----*---------ri.------ Aleutian archipelago and-, in a few, the clearing and the hunter fired the years, again will take their, place in record shot. It hit near the beast’s the fur trade, while the Alaska seal heart and dropped him, but didn’t has come back to stay. ' bring death immediately. However, All kinds of -smaller fur-bearers; the steepness of the hillside prevented flood the market with their pelts, the elephant from regaining its feet, Minks, muskrats, skunks, raccoons, despite its struggles, it -began to foxes and otters flourish. As man in- slide down the path taken by the first vades their domain their increase be- elephant. . ___ comes more rapid, since food supply herd appeared in the lane just below for the young is more plentiful. A the struggling body of the second ele- few years ago a prominent New York^phant—which had now acquired con- fur trader'predicted that pelt farms siderable impetu-s—was swept off its would not succeed. But today there. feet and the two went tumbling down are hundred of farms in Canada and the U.S., and! more than 300 islands along Alaska’s coast, well stocked with blue foxes, minks, martens and musk rats. In the Far Northwest nature has developed several kinds of rabbits, field mice, lemmings and marmots—, all prolific creatures—to supply food for minks, lynxes, martens and er mines. In- the marshland and river bayous grass and lily roots keep muskrats in provender, just as the water courses provide a livelihood for otters and seals. In our northern sec tion white men have been destroying wolves and coyotes, the natural en emies of rabbits, mice and fur-bearers. Every time a wolf dies, says one trap per, enough rabbits are saved to rear three litters of foxes or ten litters of martens. This winter furs continue to come from the collecting posts in the North in as great a number as any »past' year—in fact, the quality of the pelts grows better. Trappers have learned to wait long and patiently-, until win ter’s blasts have darkened and thick ened the furry coats before baiting; their traps. Thus fewer furs have j (jeniy jias Sp,rung into the limelight. An elephant emerged from cover and dropped! dead with a bullet in its heart. The huge carcass slid down the hillside, beating a great lane or path through the grass, and finally crash-ad into the valley below. Then a^»econd elephant appeared in % The Country Surgeon Luckless is he, whom hard fates urge on To practice as a country surgeon— To ride regardless of all weather, I snow, and hail to gether— x ! To smile and bow when sick and tired D?- Consider’d as a servant hired, up cn burglaries and hold-ups—which The United States Pays Canada $23,644.38 on Original’ Through1 froat and anyway have become difficult now . non I “ and new into busi- $5,000, For 125 Heirs‘ An international claim extending American vessel commanded vuuaiuer u iia BWI-vtiUb uuou, over a period of 115 years and origin- ■ Lieutenant Wolsey and was pursued eVGry quarter of the compass, ““T. 1A surly patient makes a rumpus, The crew of the schooner, taken to Because he is not Been the first, Buffalo aboard the Nelson, was re- (yor each, man * thinks his case leased at the American port to make. worst). their way through the Indian country And oft at two points diametric, back to their homes in Toronto,! Called to a business obstetric. that people send their valuables cash about the city by the armoured car services—-and go tho new fake labor union and ness association game. In tho latter they have been sb successful that a large number of per fectly respectable business men in the textile, automobile, grocery, iron mongery, candy, drug and other trades, are to-day paying members of new trade associations, whose organi zer, open or secret, is a well-known baron of tho underworld. One man, H.—, a stiff-necked owner of a small. Glo-thing factory, resisted. ■ He three times told the representa tive of the fake union to “get out." Tho representative, smooth, smil ing, said fee last timo: “Are you in sured agaiimt fire?" "I am!" “That’s lucky,” laughed the other. ' Thr^e days later H—’s place went i up in fire and smoke. * I He grinned savagely when the re presentative called at ’his home scon after. He told him lie was setting up a new and better place with the in surance money. “And is your new place Insured against fire,. H—?" asked the -caller. ” "It will be—t ................. swer.» “No,” said the representative,, smiling, “Oh, no, Mr. H—, It won’t," And it wasn't. This trader couldn't find an insur- iallife saving station was announced ance company in town to handle his business. Every office in Chicago bad had a visit from a representative __a_.............. of the league he had refused to join coco, to care for needs of the colony!net Minister's' amiability comes who had said: “Mr. H—, whoso fac- of Rio De .Oro and to aid any foreign a colleague, tory was burnt down recently, may be craft in distress. " ” coming to you to take out insurance guayan for liis hew place, But member of our League.” “What about it?" ! by tho Spanish air force then at Capo “Nothing. Only I thought you Juby. might like to know. He is outside ---------«’♦---------- our League.” Mistrust—“Mary, everything in the The insurance companies inquired house is covered with dust; I-can’t into this peculiar matter, and put the stand it.” Mary—“Do as I do, mum; ban up cn H—. * j don’t pay any attention to it." 1 A perfectly good, sound but! --------------------- J no company wants to nn-nic.in'/x'Hmo — : tory that is duo for a owner is inside a trade somehow manages to members against mysterious fires. He joined. He passed from rage to tears. He was a broken man. It was surrender, or ruin. And ho had a family to consider. In all, it is a worth-while business. In an investigation following an in quest on a g-ang leader who had had hs head blown off by hired assassins of a gang chief—-whose territory the dead man bad unwisely invaded—it was revealed that the annual re venue of the candy store association of which the deceased was founder and president was over'$2,000,000. I Out of that, of course, it large-scale ...........j- organization has to be maintained, lavish police bribes paid, .trbute pad to other gang chiefs in whose territory operations are car ried on, and an armed bodyguard maintained’ at a cost ob anything from flve to fifteen thousand dollars per mai?' per annum—a high figure, but the job of a bodyglard to a Chicago gang leader is- about as safo ally amounting to $5,000 has been a31(^ captined.’ terminated. The United State-s Gov-. ernment has paid $23,644.38 to the Canadian Government for distribu tion among 125 heirs of the claim, which was based on the seizure on Lake Erie of the schooner Lord Nel sen, the property of two brothers, James and William Crooks of Toron-j io, thirteen days before the war of barrister and later Minister of Edu-1Fox- days and nights in some lone cot- ~ ’ ■ cation in Parliament, nephew of the j tage worst). the while the Lord Nelson was laid up There lies a man with broken limb, two weeks in Buffalo and then con- a lady here with nervous whim, verted into an armed vessel. who, at the acme of her fever, Adam Crooks, prominent Toronto Calls him-a savage if he leave her. Who, at the acme of her fever, 1812 officially began. Announce ment of the settlement was mado re- brothers who owned the Lord Nelson,! Condemn’d to lifb on crusts and pot- cently at Minneapolis by counsel for the litigants. Along the Niagara frontier feeling had been tense for several months in 1812 and had led to acts of reprisal on the part of both American and Canadian citizens, though the re spective Governments of the United States and Great Britain had not formally announced The schooner -Lord a cargo of lumber tloments along the of Lake Erie, was to the limit," was the an-. Aerial Life Station Establish- said the renresenf.at.ive. filed the first claim against tho Uni- ‘ : ted States Government in 1815 for $5,000. At various times the claim received tho approval of tho Presi dent of the United States and in sev eral sessions of Congress either the Senate or the House voted approval. | , It was twice recommended for favor- He seeks his bed in hope of rest; able tage, To kick his heels, and spin bls brains, Walting, forsooth, foi’ labour’s pains; And that job over, happy he, If he squeezes out a guinea fee. Now comes the night, with toil op- prest, ^•Y^**’***^ AAlfM* UVO J.VCV, and, despite its struggles, it began to A third elephant of the the hillside together. A little further down the steep slope a fourth elephant of the herd was caught in the avalanche of bodies and all three went carearing madly down the hill to destruction. When’the hun ter arrived to inspect his bag the three great jungle beasts lay huddled at the bottom of the valley stone dead, their bones smashed to pieces-. Thas story is vouched for by the Uganda game ■department. Britain a state of war., first Nelson, carrying then for frontier set- 1886. Canadian shore’ The courts eventually established sighted by an the illegality of the seizure. ed by Spain Madrid.—Establishment of an aer- today by the Spanish government. An air squadron will be placed at Cape Juby, on the Atlantic coast of Mov consideration by Presidents — Vain hope, his slumbers are no more, President Monroe in 1819 and Loud sounds the knocker at the door, by President Cleveland in A farmer’s wife, at ten miles dis- i tance, ................Shouting, calls out for his assistance: Fretting and fuming in the dark, He in the tinder strikes And, as lie yawning breeches, Envies Ills neighbour riches. —From “Rab and His Friends," by Dr. John Brown (1817). Useless Attack. Paul Poiret’s attack upon the American knee has had no visible ef-1 rushfeet. At any rate there was no of shorts to cover. A delightful story of a certain Gabi- from .. ____It appears that an ad- Larre Borges, Uru- mirer of the great man had begged an __ I trans-Atlantic flyer, was autographed photograph. The Min ke is'^not a, rescued last March from the Morocco-, jster began writing cross it, “To my i an tribesmen, .who held him captive, i very dear friend.” Then he I hv ton S-njmL-b nir fnrPA fhP.n at Chua ' anfl agked lu the charming familiar to all his friends: name did you say?” So form safe. They the golden eggs. This is a new-type activity of the gangsters who have won for the great city ruled by the celebrated Bill Thompson, the unenviable title of tho “world’s crime capital.” They have already given the highest murder and violence rate in the United and tho United States has the highest rale In the world, and is breaking her own records with a murder rate of 13,00-0 for the current crime year. It is generally conceded that one' terrorist Schrager, a brainy criminal who runs a regular -crime ring, with bootleg ging as his main activity, originated the fake trado union and bogus busi ness association, which serve as a mask for extortion as bare-faced as the operations of the robber barons of old. Schrager began quietly three years ............ ................... ... ago, when -competition in the bootleg- as flirting with a live wire.............. glng business was intense. | still, there is enough profit left to Rival bootlegging, unwilling to in- maintain 1 dulgC" in the price-war of legitimate in style, busness, wore eliminating competition bv the simple process of beating in their rivals’ heads or discharging Chicago crime-of- States— I a spark, heaves his blessed with British Flapper Both Like and Unlike Her Overseas Cousin Typist Selected as “Average Girl’’ Holds “ Views on Smoking, Danc ing and Mar riage Tie . London.—The English flapper s-ud> Decided Dress, A .well-known comedian is exceed ingly proud of his three lovely and talented daughters. One day an ad- the value enhanced', mirei* of the comedian was about the family. “I" thing but girls?” he asked. “Nothing gions to start colonies. Today the but girls!" was the reply. “Why, man beaver crop is again becoming attrac- alive, we have everything but boys!”jtive to fur-buyers. 1 — ----- ; v---- . F°r y'2’ar's ^oav'i’To vote or not to vote is the question talking ers were safe from wrappers until the g.-^ js as,icingw Some politicians, Have you no- species migrated to many distant r«-i including Stanley Baldwin, the Prime , Minister, say that the flapper has m- . telligence enough to vote. Other poli- - „ ,, , , I ticians take a contrary*view.° The final chapter of the fur trade. "While the country is trying to de- . t-orv nun fnii hnnir waa nnnnvas ' Pr°bably v/ill not be finished for a long c|(je -yy^ether the age limit for young A ieij thin full-back was annoyed; and E,arne buyers go so far as to,-women should be made txventv-one by the attentions of a small dog dur- - ~av that neus mav become so plentiful women. s,h0 , e enty 0 ,-nnir.h a <■ inOf r.rKQr. say tnat pe .„y p i years instead of thirty, as at present,ing a lugby match. At last, when that prices wall tumble before another ■ flannel- trees on her wav ustiallv play had moved to the other end, the. „ comes thQ nappei .g0,^on hei Yay’ usuaily back turned and shouted to the I | expressing indifeenoj ol the whola spectators, "Whoever owns this dogl ----------«---------- | affair. The fingheh flapper is tn many John (heartily)—“I be that, sir, ninety ! Oojah on Wednesday/ kindly remove might call him off. . years to-day.” “And lived all your ' the page, as the Vicar found it most ed, "Come here, Spot, life in the village?" “Not yet, sir.” 'misleading." ! bones, boy—them’s legs." insure a fac- The Vicar (to oldest parishioner) fire until its league which guarantee its the lords-of the underworld Crooks in Clover celebrated crime baron who sawed-off shot-guns at them at short.luus a s .°A^a^,or and busi- range. j Schrager had "bumped off” several hot business competitors, when he hit on the idea of organizing his com petitors out of business. ; He started a salooii proprietor’s as-1 sociation, and invited all the retailers of illicit “booze" and all the “speak- .easies*’ (where alcoholic drinks cafii bo obtained) who could safety bo coerced, to join. Blackmailing the Respectable Anyone who declined was beaten Up, or had bls rrfuce raided and his stock smashed, or a fire mysteriously broke ouft. ... That broke' the back of the Com- Ono, a j ness associations, and has five gangs ' under liis hand—and retains a couple of smart lawyers all tho time to steer him clear of trouble—has a big Florida estate in addition to hl» Chicago mansion, three imported Rolls Royce cars, a retinue of ser vants and ’ henchmen, and a pretty Wife (he took her out of a New York cabaret) whose jewels are valued at over a quarter of a million- anil' ate the envy of all tho belles Of the under world. A Now York professor says that married men are much more luvontivo than single mon. They have to bo. paused manner “What The following announcement- was read by the curate at a small York shire church:—-“Would the member of the congregation who wrote in a Ct “And so you’re ninety to-day, John?”'hynni book last Sunday Ts, each way ■“I be that, sir, ninety ' Oojah on Wednesday,’ kindly remove ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES”—By O. Jacobson. just a Nice • Little Breeze affair. The English flapper is in many Asain Wre8tles i Franchise Problem in Algeria aIike ™ tke way sho dr-esses and some- I Appointment -of Pierre Louis Bordes w'hat unlike in her manners. ’ to succeed M. Violl&tte 00 Governor- General of Algeria, writes the Paris . Margaret Cowles, twenty-one, a typist correspondent of "The Christian Sei-;™ an office near Westminster Abbey, ence Monitor," has aroused -o-nce more ‘ She was chosen^by J.he National Un- lin the press a discussion which re- ........ turns periodically, as to how best to- extend the franchise to the native population. Shall the 800,OOP Euro peans in Algeria be placed in such a position that they could be at any time outvoted by the 5,000,-000 natives who might be eligible for the fran chise? Is Algeria ready step? These are problems Bordes will have to take well qualified1 for the post, having served in a lesser capacity in the country for some'years. Thera is to be an intra-ministerlal committee to work out the electoral reform for Algeria, so that Algerians are headed toward the right to vote. Other French colonies are for the most part permitted a certain number of native representatives in the French Par liament. k to succeed M. Viollette as Governor-England’s "average apper" is Miss ! She was chosen by the National Un- j ion of Societies for Equal Citizenship, .combining -all the organizations insist ing that the vote should be given to English women at the age of twenty- one. Miss Cowles’s father in an insur ance clerk. She received the equival ent ofv a high school education and went to work at seventeen. She was selected as an average flapper (Miss Cowles does not like the word) be tause she stands midway between the (factory girl and the university girl. She uses rouge, smokes, wears her skirts knee high, goes to dances, has men friends and goes to the “movies’* whenever she can, but she goes to church on Sunday and most of her ■friends go to church, too. “A girl can wear silk stockings and knea skirts without going to the devil," she declared recently. Miss Cowles would like to be given the vote, but she would not vote as her husband did if she were married. She Would use her own judgment. She expects to marry—probably at the age of twenty-four or twenty-five. She does not believe that the word "obey" ought to be In the marriage ceremony* TKb "average miss" views work as good for a girl if she does not start too young, and holds that a wife should work out after marriage if She thereby helps hoc husband and chil dren . i for such a which M. up. He is 1 Mike Maloney say his friend Pat O’Dwyer lying In the gutter. Said Mike: “Pat, what are you doing down there?" Pat replied — "There’s a couple of men holding me down here ■—Ilaig and Haig." A man entered a South African bar. Ho had a bristling moustache, a re volver in each hand, a bowle knife In his belt, and on a lead" he had a full- grown lion. “A pint of rum," he said, giving the lion a blow as he spoke. “Another pint,” giving the lion an other cuff. After -the third pint, the barman said, rather fearfully: “You come from a tough part of the world, don’t you, strangert" “Rough!’- was the reply, "Why, I was turned out of the last town In which I lived for bo ih« effeminate.** v-......... .. Mr. Justice McCardle, In the King’s Bench Division—“I hope I am hot Cyn ical oor affected unduly by a long ex perience ot experts, but front my ob servation during thirty .years I have come to tho conclusion that the vlexVai of tt.fi expert vary very much with th# by which ho h co lied/’ *