1936-06-18 — Page 2

Murder On A

MAY BE IT WAS FICTION

Mr. Anthony Edàn finds me off from foreign affairs to brower in a bookstall, recent 'photo of the British Foreign Minister.

GANGSTERS CAUGHT

IN NEW YORK CRIME DRIVE

“LUCKY” LUCIANO FACES

LONG PRISON TERM

New York, June 8.

New York's Public Enemies One and Two are in the toils of the law and there doesn't seem to be anyone else in the city's Who's Who in Crimedom capable of re- placing them.

They are Charles (Lucky) Luciano, dromp-eyed, swarthy leader of the New York underworld, and John Torrio, who ab- dicated his throne of rackets in Chicago to Al Capone, Luciano. who proudly bears the No. 1 tag, is accused of operating a chain system of prostitution houses that was said to have nétted him' several millions of dollars annually, Some authorities hellove his ring grossed as much as $10,000,000 a yong.. Terrio is charged with heading a $1,000,000 booti eg liquor syndiente.

With these two out of circulation and facing long prison terms' if convicted, authorities believe the New York underworld! will be without leaders, worthy of that designation, for several years of lenst.

The remaining members on the public enemy list, they are convinced, will never attain mujor ranking because they lack the peculiar qualities of leadership necessary in maintaining œ'posi- tion of importance in the underworld's "big business.”

Up to a few years ago Lawiane was Toprio. unlike Luciano, does not just a benchman to whatever gun look nor net like the usual conception boss was in power. But he was of a gang leader. He is quiet-spoken, thoroughly able henchman und by the dresses simply and looks more like time the prohibition trt wasa businessman, Luciano, on the repented. Latelino-known as Lucky other hand, is blatant, a lavish spen- because he- waa-one--of theder and a fashion plate Whenever Im jamsters

ever to return possible, he appears in cutaway conta, alive from a Pride"--was being eniled boss." Only Arthur (Dutch) Torrio was arrested in White Scholtz outranked him on the city Plains, a suburban eily near New rester of criminal "lite" But the York, just four days before he was humiliation of being second on the planning to flee to Europe. He was Hat was removed by the sudden le charged with conspiring to

violate mise of Schultz and three of his you. the federal internal revenue act.

His underworld career started more

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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1938.

Tube Railway

WEALTHY ARTIST VANISHES

FROM HOTEL

Two New Mysteries.

For U.S. Detectives

M

· New York, June 1. MURDER in New York's

busiest subway (tube) railway station and the my- stery disappearance of a wealthy Chicago artist and socialite from New York's smartest hotel

-these are the two balling problems. which the police are trying to solve to-day.

After lying dead for more than three hours, Edgar Eckert. was found by a passenger in af clonk-room in the Forty-Second- street Station this afternoon.

STALEMATE?

Chess players from every part of the world competed in the Annual Chess shows one of the competitors appar Congress, Margate, recently. Picture ant chain of men's clothing shops,ently bewildered over a tricky posiz was strangled.

Eckert, director of an import

-Baffled detectives sought to find! motive, for there were jewels and}

money in his pockets.

ton during the play,

Checking Eckert's movements. Secret

detectives made the surprising

discovery that he left Gustavel

Fisher, an engineer, tolling him! Executions

he was going home.

But the station where his

body was found was far of the For U.K.?

route he ordinarily used.

Baffled detective sought to find! a motive for the murder, but they!

failed.

Phillip Turnbull, Vice-president, of Eckert's firm, described him naj a man without an enemy in the world.

TO PREVENT SCENES OUTSIDE PRISONS

A sequel to the execution of Dr. Buck Ruxton for the murder

He started with the firm thirty- of his wife was heard in the six years ago as an office boy and House of Commons, recently. progressed steadily to hià last! post. He was fifty-four.

KIDNAPPING FEAR

Kellogg

Pact And

The League

New Peace Move In America

Following close on the heels of the declaration by Anthony Eden, British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, before the House of Commons that the League of Nations "must go [on" despite its failure in Afrien, In movement is being, launched in New York for revision of the Covenant and for connecting it up with the Kellogg Briand l'act

from the Treaty of Versailles. and separation of the Covenant

The movement is launched by the League of Nations Association, one of the most powerful pro-League bodles in the world.

FAR FROM HOPELESS

The situation with regard to the League and its power was seen by friends of the Geneva organization as far from hopeless, and it was de- clared there was imperative nerd for it to continue and bi made more effective for the preservation of world peace,

"There is one definite step ahend that, we have to take, that of dis- tinguishing between att aggressor and vietima, Dr. James Shobivell, | president of the association, said to a of representative

the Christian Sciener Mozitor. "Without this step, which we have been reluctant to take, there is no sound progress toward an interem Lional gunruntée of Hence or an international structure

that will stand the test

DEFINITELY COME

Dr. Shotwell held that the time had "definitely come" when there must ha

gecognition of the need of revising the

Mr. Robert Bernays (Lib, Nat.. Bristol) asked the Home Secretary what steps he pro- The missing artist, olieved to posed to take to prevent de- have been kidnapped, is Seymour monstrations outside prisons on Daiches, London rabbi Dekoven, nephew of Dr. Samuel the morning of an execution of the kind that have taken place Dekoven Came to New York from Chicago last Tuesday he in recent months. cause he feared that the remnantsi Mr. Geofrey Lloyd (Under- of the underworld gany who murcuki assura Mr. Bernays that the

been Secretary, Ronic Office) said he dered his uncle, El Daiches, demonstrations of the kind were years ago were plotting to kidnap deplorable. hint Eli was the brother of Dr. Samuel Dalchès.

The power to regulate public Dekoven left Chicago sectly as were necessary to preserve order meetings was limited to speh sleps and hired a bodyguard immediate and prevent obstruction. ly he arrived here.

decided to consolidate his position in two decades ago with the of nothing about going out. He was pool) said that, in view of the con-

Then Luciano, Inkel about him and He divided the rackets inte varcus Five Points gang of Brooklyn. One of categories and peritied the vino his colleagues was Al Capone. When 'public enemies to operate their 18

Big Jim Colosimo, vice Boss and res- pecialtien_130_ame the whaurant and resort operator in Chica- some kind of financial understanding, 70, wanted a hodyguard-Big Jim had Then to make his eule even more just been threatened with death by Secure, ht entered palities not young killer unless he produced through the front door, however.

POLITICAL

Ie backed

#

PLUNGE

district

50,000 he recruited Turria and year later added Al Capone to his (strong-arm staff.

Under his bass, Torrio came to politien know every gangster and croasted lender (privately) with his ill-gotten politician in Chiengo. What he wealth and made it possible for this learned he finally put to use after potilielas to take control of several Colosimo was shot to death by rivals. districts with dummy, leaders "Front-Torrio took over "Big Jim's" rackets ing for him.

and increased operations through

By then, Ladiane was reportedly bootlegging to a scale of several behind three industrial "protection" | millions of dollars. organisations which netted hundreds i

of thousands of dollars in the form of "tribute," and chieftair of the lucrative policy slip racket, a form of lottery.

TORRIO SUSPECTED

Jente in 1924 Dian O'Banion, notori. ous Chicago gangster, was shot to դիս O'Banion's. followers A little more than a year ago Mr. death,

decided Torrlo har some know- Thomas F. Dovey, youthful, are ledge sive former United States attorney

of the assassination. Ou here, was appointed a special pro- January 26, 1935, Terrio's auto- secutor by Governor Herbert II. Leh- mobile was riddled with machine man to delve into the vice and egun bullets. He was wounded and kuts situation in New York. Mr. was confined to a hospital, under Dewey's Investigators discovered henvy guned, for a month. evidence that led them to believe that Torrio decided he was no longer. Luciano was the power behind the loved nor admired in Chicago, turned vice ring and that 'hia coffers bulged jover - his interests to his chief alde, with the income from this business. Capone, and sailed for Italy.

The villence was presented to a When he finally returned to New specini grand jury which indicted York, he aligned himself with Dutch Luciano on compulsory prostitution |Sahultz, investing beavily in a bond- charges. But Luciano was not to being and surety company which wrote found.

Detectives trailed him to bonds, mostly for Schultz henchmen Florido but before an arreat could he who became enmeshed with the law. made, Luciano flew to Hot-Springs, During last 'year's city election Ark., a favourite health resort among campaign, Mr. Robert V. Santangelo, the "better" gangsters. He used his assistant district attorney, charged own plane, a speedy Lockheed mono, that a district political leader was piane.

serving as "dummy," for Torrio. He Finally, the law caught up with Mimiso accused Torro of being financial while he was enjoying the baths and backer of n.. $1,000,000' wholesale sunshine at Hot Springs. He utilized whiskey corporation which, although every possible legal technicality tot operated under state licence, ab- escape removal to Now York but was tained liquor through smuggling from" defented. New York pofice paid him the French Island of St. Pierre.

left-handed compliment. when Torrio la reported to possess about he was brought back by arranging $10,000,000 in tax exempt for a benvy guard to escort him to mont securities. Polica này he visits police headquarters

Al Capone's wife each month, giving her large sums of money.

DISLIKES HAND cuffs

govern-

After Torrlo's arrest, the court, at the urging of the district attorney, Luciano was bitter over the in- net bail at $100,000, thinking it was dignity of being chained to detec high enough to keep am in Jail tive, who like himself, was of Italian pending, trial. But his wife produced that nun in cash. He was arrested on a forgery charge a fow minutes after his-release and his wife again" additional $4,000 in cuali ball.

descent.

"You're a hell of an Italian," Tucinno growled.

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"No, not me," retorted the dotective. won him freedom by producing, an

"You are a hell of an Italian."

busy writing.

“

nothing new in, what would be pro- Lengue, but said he thought there was

pased. "because, contrary to common Topinion, the League of Nations bas stendily working toward the principle which the Halo-Ethiopinu i crisis nd shown was necessary; namely, a graded responsibility for the maintenanes of prace, with dne regard to the geographic situation and the special conditions of each of the nations concerned."

"That principle was laid in the first assembly," he said. "Thè Scandinavians insisted that they should not be called upon to police the world in the same degree that a nation might be called upon that had definite~and "personal interests": In a given instrument and that principle was accepted then.

FOLLOWED THROUGHOUT.

"it was accepted when Switzerland ¡ came in. Preserving neutrality, it was necepted in the Protocol of Geneva and has been followed throughout the whole history of the League. It has never, however, been given definite recognition in world opinion, which has remained ignorant of the fact that the Covenant was sub- stantially modified in this way.

The guard, George Foster, and prevent altogether the holding of It was, therefore, impracticable, to Dekoven went out together last such demonstrations outside prisoas. night and returned to the Ititz Mr. Векциум asked if it would not Carlton Hotel at midnight.

help matters in avoiding demonstra Foster went out again and Lions of the lind mentioned if the day- when he returned to the hotel and hour of execution were not ari- ten minutes later Bekoven's nounced before. room was empty....and no one that the time and place of execution

Mr. Lloyd said it

Was necessary has seen him since.

should be communicated to a rousider- "We were together until mid-jable number of persona. It was the night," said Foster. "Then 1 left view of the Government that, in these him in his room for a short while. circumstances, complete.secrecy would He was partly undressed, and said ไ impracticable.

Mr. Logan (Soc., Scotland, Liver- "When I come back he'd gone. nan (no name was mentioned), wIH siderable trouble caused by this wo- He took nothing from his room.t not time she was locked up? There was just-a-note-paying! Mr. Jagger (Soc., Clayton) asked

“Now it is quite clear that thai 'I've gone to the Ansoula Hotel.' if the difficulty would not be over-

problem of security will be worked YOUNG, ADVENTUROUS

come by the abolition of capital

fout regionally, and that it is equally "I checked up on all the hotels! punishment.

important that that regional organs lization should not take the shape of Lord Winterton remarked that le during the night, but there was no could not understand why the person

a balance of power of a pre-war sign of him. This was the first question had not beer, proceeded

period. The only way to escape that Hs to maintain the fundamental prin- the London police for con arrived, here. I am sure he's

ciple of a world organization, recogni- duct likely heen kidnapped.".

peace, such as bad at longe Inst been an instrument of national policy is Dekoven, young and adven-done by the Manchester police.

rejected, and that that nation which turous, played the part of antir this woman feels strongly upon

Mr. Maxton (LLP., Bridgeton)-employs the nation violating that amateur detective when his this matter, should she not be allowed

prinelis a violator of that peace. uncle was murdered, and his to carry on an agitation like the rest

And, therefore, ai aggressor. investigations led to the solu-l of us? tion of the mystery.

There was no reply. The murder of Daiches. was alleged to have been plotted to obtain £60,000 insurance, and carried out by a gangster for £600.

time I left his side since he against by lead to a breach of the Ition of the Pact of Paris that war as

92 CYCLISTS.

NO LIGHT

Another gangster was alleged to have been involved in Daiches's death, and the police believe that he may have followed Dekoven to Bournemouth, drove along a nine- As motorist W. W. Graham, of New York and abducted him in mile stretch forty-five minutes revenge.

OND GIRL'S LUCK Crossing The Atlantic For -A Shilling New-York; Jine 1. BLONDE-Marianne Davis, torch-singer and-horse-. woman, is unlucky at love, but she is lucky at cards- so she is on her way to England.

Miss Davis was divorced. There was no future for her in America. She learned that there was a possibilty of singing engagements in, Løn- don, but she had not enough money to get to the clocks. She paid a shilling to enter a bridge drive; the prize was a one-way ticket to England in the German, Hner wh

To-day she-is--in ling" cabin looking forward to an equally Jacky future.

after lighting-up time recently, he took the trouble to count the number of cyclists he passed who had no lights.

They totalled ninety-two.

Mr. Graham told the Natisnät Chamber of Trade conference about it at Torquay. A resolu- tton urging a stricter police watch

on cyclists at dusk was adopted.

LESSON OUT OF IT

Dr. Shotwell said he looked for the und development of a progressive rapid clarification of the Lengue's, i stand, and voiced optimism regarding' the future settlement of international disputes by peaceful means. At the same time, he saw good coming out of the lesson learned through Italy's conquest of Ethiopia.

"While there should be general reprobation of what Italy has done," he said. "the situation is by no means as dark as it would have been if, instead of war on the hills of Abyssinia, there had been another World War before tiene issues had been faced.

"We are escaping that ultimate tragedy, and if we have the wisdom to build on this tragie Incident in Abyssinin, ye may then establish our defence against the next World War.

“I am, therefore, by no

menas

wholly pessimistic. If a lesson can be learned in time, it will be the most important lesson we could learn."-

HUEY LONG SUCCESSOR

IS A "NIGHTSHIRT”

MAN

New York, June 1.

Huey Long, demagogue of Louisiana-shot dead last September --became famous all over the world for hits yellow, silk pyjamas. Il successor, Governor Richard Leche, threatens to gain fame for his old-fashioned nightshirts:

The Lavourite gift on his inauguration to-day was a plain whitd nightshirt presented to him by à six-year-old girl. He carried it in his hand to the governor's mansion.

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