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Exploits in Savagery. Elsewhere, savage raids turned into brutal massacres. Four miles from Kastel, about 100 Jews (two-thirds Irgun, one-third Stern Gang) swept into the village of Deir Yesin at dawn, blew up its huts with demolition charges. More than 200 Arabs, half of them women & children, died in the slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer...
...Chicago Sun-Times sympathized with McCabe as a "rebel" against Governor Green's machine. The Chicago Tribune, the governor's most potent ally, ran one brief account and then dropped the story. Hearst's Herald-American saw the attack as "an outgrowth of a gang war for control of Will County's jukebox and gambling riches." Editor McCabe's competitor, the daily Joliet Herald-News, suggested that the motive was simply robbery (the thugs took $40 from McCabe but left his expensive watch...
After a rough and tumble fight in North End early yesterday morning, police captured Theodore Voutiritsa, 38, who they named as the last of the "Co-operative Gang," part of a long-existent crime fellowship that was responsible for the January 9 Coop stickup...
Loose talk was responsible for the eventual capture of the gang, and the two members who couldn't keep their mouths shut have kindled sparks of wrath and internal warfare in the under-world organization...
...became a national hero overnight, the prototype for all subsequent gang-busting radio programs. In his two years as special prosecutor, he made a record of 72 convictions out of 73 indictments; in his last year as D.A., 96.5% were convicted or pleaded guilty. His zeal for convictions led to one blunder. In 1938, his office got one Bertram Campbell convicted of forgery. Campbell spent three years in jail, was later found to be innocent. As governor, Dewey signed a bill giving Campbell the right to sue the state for damages. Campbell collected $115,000, died three months later...