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The

11TH INSTALMENT:

MRS OKSANA

KASENKINA'S

OWN STORY

ATS.

AT

"I remember somebody's Socialist Government saying if you vote Tory you'll always be having wars."

THE BRAIN BEHIND THE GANGS

T

WHERE is a club in London

which you would find dif ficult to join. There is another which might be easier. but only if the owner consider- ed you of value to him.

The owner of both is a dap

well smartly dressed. per; spoken man.

He has a sound and honest reputation in business circles, and is looked upon as a first- class sportsman, always ready to give his money and support to deserving charitles.

By the police, however, he is suspected of being the organi- ser of many important rob- beries in London and the pro- vinces.

While his face and habits are well known to the detectives who are watching and waiting for one, falso move, very few

members of the three dan- gerous gangs he controls know his identity.

A study of the man Scotland Yard regard as their most important suspect

By REX DINSLEY

his then

on Even His bigger club is not based

It has thorough, fellowship. principles of

which much gambling-rooms in money changes hands daily.

precautions arc

His gangsters, on his instructions, take the booly to one or another re-

Only men and women whom he celver.

10 are admitted trusts implicitly these rooms, they play

and stakes which begin at £5 and high.

for

40

be

These gambling-rooms con

a matter of minules, altered in

lounge, to an innocent changing part of his personal apartment.

While gambling goes on, a careful watch is kept.

Meets 'contacts'

AT his second club there is no

social

gambling. Ostensibly a club, it is in fact a web in which to catch valuable information.

'Undercover'

OMETIMES an undercover man plays the part of receiver, re- moyes the gems from their setting and melts down the gold or plati-

num,

He then Informs the G.O.C., who is looking for precious metals for

approaches a business contact who

use in his legitimate business.

Other types of diolen property the G.0.0. leaves to the receiver and subordinates, collects, through his the price he axes himself.

One of his successful gengs is a

RELATED TO AND EDITED

BY ISAAC DON LEVINE

THE little Soviet America in mistakable hint given ur."

My bb mortified mo. · The ·· which I lived was mir- servations

famous flower gardons were dying rored in its various

of neglect, the vegetable gardens phases at the Glen Cove estate, were unwatered ond untended. on Long Island, of the late J. Poison Ivy was

spreading every- P. Morgan, the international where. Wherever I went for a walk, I came upon emply bottles, · dirty banker. The place had been cartons and boxes. Refuse littered acquired shortly before my ar- the grounds.

rival in the United States as a With dismay I asked myself: rest home for Soviet represon people to represent Russia abroad? "How can our government send such tatives. Within three months And why is it that our top It became a source of humillat- diplomata, from Gromyko down, ing news throughout America who spend their week-ends here, when the neighbours raised a tolerate such a disgrace?" scandal over the ugly behaviour

PRESS EXPOSE

of the visitors to their shores.

I was inside Glen Cove during COON enough the American press discovered the scandalous state that affair.

of affairs within our domain. Nelgh- bours complained of the pollution of Although I had landed in the nearby waters and of the nudist New York in the middle of bathing. One of our teachers, a fat June, I found that the Soviet woman, came running to me full of excitement. Sho had been al, the school had not completed its beach, the press photographers had courses because of a shortage descended upon it, and she bragged: will be in of teachers. Final examina- "You'll see, my tions were scheduled for July The papers made the most of 15, to be followed by graduation another picture, showing an attrac- exercises for a class of six high tive girl from the Amtorg who had school students. Altogether the been snapped by the photographers in Eve's costume. There were im- school at that time had some mediate repercussions. The girl lost 100 pupils in all grades.

her job in America and was hustled

the

papers tomorture

In today's article, Mrs Kasenkina reveals how Soviet citizens behave when transplanted to a millionaire's estate. She tells of what happened at Glen Cove, Long Island, the scandals that found their way into the press, her mortification over the conditions there and of how a thief was trapped.

back to Soviet Russia within a matter of days.

A public scandal ia which the un-

couth

something

aristocracy

Soviet

not abide. The the president of Amtorg himself

Late in July, I wa9 overjoyed to learn that 0 us group of teachers would be sent to Glen Cove where the children of Swiet officials were in camp. I looked for- ward to the opportunity, as I was anxious to be in the country to study the flora and dants to take care of the grounds, but of spies and watchdogs there was no the insects of America.

shortage. When I sneaked out with another. teacher to go shopping

because

was recalled, wo beard, of the incident.

There was no

help in our little Soviet

America

to look after the

small children

and

no atten-

No sooner had we arrived, at the village five-and-ten cent store, she looked around and hurried me, the great fenced-in estate On "Poskoreye-make it quick!" At the Long Island than wo were met estate itself, when I retired of "an by the woman in charge of the evening to work on my specimens, children's

an- I would and young Communist stal- camp, who

warts snooping around. nounced:

"You'll have to take care of

This perennial vigilance, however, extend to theft. I was warned upon my arrival at Glen

a group of little girls," she told did not us. "Are there no nursemaids Cove by one of the teachers not to.

blunt answer.

IDLING ARISTOCRATS It was a wristwatch, now It was cash

To them he is "The G.O.C.", a. Here, too, are arranged meetings shadowy figure in the back between the G.O.C. and his busi skeleton-key gang which specialises here?" I asked. "No," was the keep more than a few dolinre about

alibi nets contacts. ground, always with an which the men who are working These contacts have no idea of the under Superintendent Chap- Identity of the man man, chief of the Flying Squad, are determined to break one day.

Nothing in the romantic, film-like picture of this Edgar Wallace character seems to be missing.

A

There is even a woman.

'His wife'

CHARMING young girl, she is also his first Beutenant, and passes as his wife.

In the social life which the G.O.C. End leads, at the partics in West hotels, she is always with him, beautifully, dressed, wearing expen sive jewellery.

The life of pleasure is not wholly sybaritic, This beautiful girl, from these West End hotels and cocktail bars, sedulously gathers information in casual conversations which will go to help the planning of big rob- beries.

It is estimated that £1,000,000 worth of stolen properly has been bought by receivers during the past

two years.

The G.O.C. was probably behind most of the robberies.

A fine flat

with

in West End fat and house rob- beries.

Jewels and furs. "They are after whom

carpet gong which they deal. To then lie is a success. Another is the

steals carpeta from churches, coun- ba man, who can ful business

try houses, and occasionally trusted to fulfil his contracts on

houses. time and honestly.

A man who can get you those restricted things which, in these times, are in short supply.

-

rob

warc-

ma. We had no key for the door of our room. Daily there was an up- roar about missing valuables-now

which had been stolen. Everybody was suspicious of all the others. I a rebelled at the indignity of our teachers were looked

PROTESTED that I was

specialist in natural science, status, for is to that I had planned to conduct down upon as an inferior casto. tobacco, seminars in natural study, for

Another gang's main work lorry-louds of cigarettes, and food.

my students, and start collec- CAUGHT IN THE ACT The G.O.C. lives well. He can tions of plants and insects. be generous; contributing 10 charities. He likes ring-side sents

It was when he was serving his inst term of imprisonment that the G.O.C. decided that there was small future for him among the ranks of at boxing contests. petty crooks.

At present the G.O.C. seems to be worried. Wherever he goes he is The post-war world offered op accompanied by a bodyguard armed portunities to a man of vision and with razors and rubber truncheons. initiative. To be a Napoleon of krime he must lead and organize.. Hla undercover men are bringing him stories of threats of violence Although his receivers do not know who he is, they are gunning him.

The

gang

N prison he talked with desperate, men, listened patiently to their boastful histories, summed up their characters and abilities.

Six checks

and

AT our 87th Street school in New "No, no," the manager re- A York. I was plagued, with the torted, "forget your plans. We same vice. There were so many cases have quite a few.tots to take in my classes of money and things care, of, and that's what we vanishing from coat pockela

* purses that I determined to root oul brought you here for.”

the evil. Several of the students who had become attached to me The room in the impressive man joined me in a plan to trap the thief. sion which I was to share with One of the boys hid inside the fire- another teacher would have been place when everybody went out for Ideal for rest. But adjoining it were callsthenies. Sure enough, the thief for two dormitory rooms in which 14 appeared and was caught in the net. little girls were quartered. These She was the daughter of a ranking were our wards, and the two of us Amtorg official. had to serve both ns nursemaids and. chambermaids to them, from wash- ing their hair to cleaning their bath-

has threatened them in a man-

He made notes of the days when Her no other criminal bas dared this or that man would be released. From them he carefully selected his followers. But only a few became his confidants.

The majority of the levies ordinary gangsters, working in

dark.

are

the

dp.

Beyond this the jobs planned are not always successful nowadays. Scotland in the past few weeks Yard men have frustrated at least six large robberies which the G.O.C. is belloved to haye planned.

He did not begin operations with large-scale robberies and burglaries. Airport affair on July 29.

One of these was the London

He had not yet the organisation.

That' points to informers.

Tho

His little acorn was sown when close watch of Scotland Yard is un- he organised some of the barrow nerving the G.O.C., and it is un- boys. It took-roots in the black nerving his gangsters, too.

rooms.

the

of in

This was the beginning of the hounding campaign against me. The father of the culprit threatened me with dire punishment. The mothers of the little girls. to taak by our Communist super I was taken were having the time of their lives, visor for exceeding my dulles coming and going, and disporting

on the beach, where serving merely as an instructor themselves another luxurious house in

certain subjectst When I argued neighbourhood had been rented by that I regarded moral education as the Soviet authorities to accomune- part of my task, he burst out: date all the staff. I had occasion "Since when are teachers. - sup-- to tell these mothers what I thought posed to be investigators?" of them:

After this I was ostracised by the "You idling aristocrats, you should Communists within the Soviet be ashamed to turn us tenchors into colony. They treated me like a nursemaids for your children)" 1 parlah und my loneliness grew

deeper than ever.

told them to their faces.

We were warned to stay on the

wore

1.

(Continued tomorrow)

But it is not only of the police that grounds which, to be sure, WHERE he comes from is not on market.

The ook has now wide branches, they are afraid: The G.O.C. has ample enough. "It's best not to do With one exception, he handles passed the word round that he will outside the boundaries," was the un-

That find the 'man who in betraying .... (Copyright, 1998). King Features Sundi cate. "Ine, zo stolen property himself. ́exception unidentifiable gold, him.

a

tirely clear. He was once a convict; now ho has

well- appointed house in the country end a fine flat in town.

Dream Come True

NANCY

THE MOSQUITOES ARE ALWAYS BITING MY

FACE I THINK I'LL PUT ON MY HALLOWEEN

MASK

C

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OH

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