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criminals who indulged extensively

in interstate crime. This exten- sfon of authority has never been constitutionally defined. Recently the first death penalty for kid-

napping under the Lindbergh law

was imposed. A man found guilty of kidnapping a seace officer, mal- treating him. and carrying him into another State. was hanged after the Supreme Court denied him protection under the Bill of fights.

less routine, business-like manner. The prohibition days of the last decade, when rival gangs held pitched gun battles in the streets ror" control of the liquor trade, have given way to criminal com- binations and other more subtle ways of operating. Since the mas- sacre of "Dutch" Schutz and sev-| eral of his henchmen in a Newark cavern in October, 1935, there have been relatively few under- world murders performed in the accepted gangland fashion. This does not mean that predatory crime is on the wane, but merely that it has found a more efficient manner of operation.

Recently two important criminal' investigations have been held in New York demonstrating both the truth of Mr. Hoover's contention of political corruption and the less spectacular methods now used by the underworld. One was the case of commercialised vice involving, Charles (Lucky) Luciano in New York County, and the other, the so-called Drukman case in Brook-

been duly brought before the grand jury, but, on the report of the prosecuting attorney that suf Actent evidence was lacking, the The three had been "discharged. blood-stained clothes, which were not deemed to be evidence. were returned to their owners. On the pleas of numerous citizens the district attorney of Brooklyn was superseded by a special prosecu- tor. This officer produced sum- clent evidence to have the three men indicted. They were found gulity and sentenced to long terms in prison. The case was far from ended, however, 23 the special prosecutor was empowered to in- vestigate the failure of the re- gular prosecuting officials to press the case.

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Jurisdiction and promising con- tinuation of that activity. AI- though the basic problems of crime in America doubtlessly in- THE Undersigned have received volve the strengthening of district police and court administration, and the arousing of the politica! consciousness of the citizens of lyn. In both cases, through mal district areas, the apprehension of criminals and the punishment of feasance or misfeaszace, the re-

crime on its widest and most dan- gularly constituted prosecuting officials failed to act, and to ob-

gerous front must for a long time

tain convictions It was neċessary

require an authority of broader jurisdiction-the Federal Govern- for the Governor of the State to

ment. It is not easy to make the appoint not only special prosecu-

clvic tors, but investigators.

a nation Luciano,

consciousness of whose criminal record covered the

such as ours more sensitive quick- ly. Once this consciousness la 20 years of his adult life, had con- sistently revaded any punishment sufficiently rapid in its response to right and wrong, the problem more drastic than brief gaol sen-

of crime would asume a true pro- tences, a beneficiary of political

portion in the life of the people favouritism. For years he was known to the initiated as a power- 35 say, at present in Great Bri- tain. But the process in this res«. ful gang overlord, controlling in-

pect will have to be slow and terests in numerous rackets. Fe

minute in a word, evolutionary. was a familiar figure at Saratoga

It will be a century before Ameri- and other horse-racing resorts,

ca is as law-abidng as, say, Aus- at the best hotels in and lived New York. To the general pub-trails, with its Immediate British heritage of blood as well as in- Bc. however, he was scarcely

stitutions. In the meantime, the TERMS:-Casa ON DELIVERY. known. It was said that he de-

lesson afforded by the success of precated the extensive publicity

the G-men has aroused the think- accorded Al Capone and other

ing public to the need for streng- racketeers of the prohibition era, and preferred to remain anony thening the public conscience. Talk mous, He might have remained of a Scotland Yard for America

went on for 10 years before it be so had not an alert special pro-

came a reality. Now a citizen secutor, Thomas E Dewey, in-

anywhere in the land need only re- vestigated his activities with start- ling results. Luciano was found move the receiver of his telephone and ask for National 7117 to com- to be the guiding genius of a vast

municate immediately with the vice organisation, the annual reż turn of which was 12,000.000 dol- Bureau of Identification of the United States Department of Jus- lars. In a campaign of violence

tice, and to put into motion a very and intimidation he had "forced

efficient police machine.

AN ALARMING PICTURE

In a recent forum on problems of crime held in New York City Mr. Hoover painted an alarming picture. He declared that one m every sixteen homes may expect to fall victim to robbery, arson, rape, assault, murder, or other felony. About 12,000 murders, be declared, were in 1935 part of the 1,445,581 major crimes perpetrated the operators of dozens of dis- by 2,000,000 active criminals. To addition to crimes of violence, he

orderly houses to pay him a week- ly tribute of half their receipta.

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added, an unestimated number of Those refusing to join the "y-MEETING

men was engaged in left enter- prises, including gambling, moral offences, trade and labour rackets of all kinds. As a result, the nation Days a total - annual crime bill estimated at fifteen thousand million dollars, half enough to pay of the huge Ea- Hional debt. "The American home and every person in it," Mr, Hoover declared, "is to-day in a state of slege."

CORRUPT POLITICS Mr. Hoover placed the blame for such conditions largely on cor- rupt politics, particularly as they affect parole and clemency com- missions. He condemned light sentences and early parole of cri- minals convicted of homicide, pointing out that the average term served for such convictions is only 434 months. More than 3,000 pri- soners serving homicide sentences are placed on parole every 'year, he added, after having been im- prisoned for an average period of fewer than ten years for murder. "Largely by cause of this inade quate punishment," Mr. Hoover sald, "before the sun sets to-night 35 persons in the United States will have been wiped out by the hands of the murderer. In this country are 200,000 persons who will commit murder before they die, and 300,000 persons now living will die by the bullet or the knife or the club or the poison of the army of murderers."

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dicate" were beaten and stubbed. His organisation extended beyond the business of vice itself into the courts and politics generally. Ee was sentenced to from 20 to 50 years in prison. Eight of his as- sociates were sentenced to shorter terms.

"LOAN SHARK,”.

The case of Samuel Drukman demonstrated the obstruction to justice afforded by corrupt pro- secuting officials. Drukman was a gambler and reputedly involved in the "loan shark" racket, a leader of which was his brother-in-law, A year or more Meyer Luckman, ago, as evidence in court later and several revealed, Luckman

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Chrisianity Is an alien creed, diametrically opposed to our racial Inheritance.-General Ludendorf.

You want to know whom Ta. going to marry next? That's all they ever want to know about me.

Miss Peggy Joyce.

Next to love, bridge, is the great est Indoor sport. But most people prefer bridge-Mr. Ely Culbertson. How much is balletomania going to change the English character? What is going to be the result of new Russian menace?-Mr. Geoff- rey Gorer:

Mr. Chamberlain's "blackbird has performed a national service by giving the people of Britain an enhanced confidence in their chief. financial Minister-Mr. Arthur Bryant.

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I believe that if Mr. Baldwin sought to throw the Free State

More than 800 descendants of out of the Empire, Mr. de Valera henchmen decided to rid them- a Briton named Jonathan Fair- would make as much fuss about selves of Drukman, whom they banks recently gathered at Ded-duress as he did about staying in

toit Mr. F. Macdermot believed to be stealing from theirham, Massachusetts, USA, common funds. One day police celebrate the tercentenary of what were told by an "unidentified in-they claim is the oldest house in formant over the telephone that the United States.

Even llons do not kill more than they themselves can eat-they do not kill for play. This ruthless habit is reserved for the cheetan, the hyena, and the European gen- tleman, Mr. Llewlyn Powys,

a murder was being done in a It was built in 1836 by Farbanks certain garage. Officers rushed to himself, who had the oak sent out

scene and broke into ne the

from England.

I have the daty to expose one building. In the back seat of an

Arm in arm his 800 descendants of the greatest crimes in the history of the world.—Mr. Trotsky... Upon 80 per cent of Etonians the rare privilege of Eton, ts. wholly wasted. Mr. Harold Nicol

automobile was the battered body are now to parade round- the

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of Drukman, and near by were house led by Mrs. Doris Fairbanks, Luckman and two of his relatives of New York City. in the act of removing blood from their hands and clothing. The Drukman case developed into one of the most serious scandals in recent Brooklyn police history..

The house was built oy. Fäk banks three years after he went to Boston from Engiana, in 1642

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The killing of Drukman received and in 1654 wings were added on Fairbankses. and on little publicity, and it was not to it to accommodate the familles tenary date Itself a party will be until months later that reformers of his married sons,

held there. insisted upon the case bring -TE- A big circus tent was put up During this the family will sing opened. Then it was revealed that beside the old house to provide an unison an "anniversary song” army of specially written for the occasion. Luckman and his associates had meeting-place for the