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...William Hamm Jr., St. Paul brewer, was abducted in June 1933. Because he could not identify his captors, Gangster Roger Touhy & mob went free. But Federal agents promptly hung the kidnapping of Gambler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor on them and Illinois sent Touhy & gang to the penitentiary for years & years...
...investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger last July.* In the Stoll case he was given the Indianapolis area...
Master Mind. In addition to the three accomplices of Assassin Vlada Georgieff who were caught fortnight ago in France, the Jugoslav and French detectives working on the case last week got track of the murder gang's "master mind." He proved to be the onetime Croat Deputy they had suspected from the first, burly, square-jawed Dr. Ante Pavelitch (TIME...
Thus it is twice as risky to be an unskilled member of a pick-&-shovel gang as it is to be a farmer or a lawyer. Cause: partly, the accidents incident to unskilled labor, but principally the manner of life which the occupation entails (diet, housing, medical care, contact with infected persons...
...from national advertisers at $16,000 a page. Weary of trying to battle Hearst singly on the Sunday front, eleven competitors, led by the Chicago Tribune, banded together two years ago to sell comic section advertising for the group. Last week 21 newspapers east of the Rockies formed a gang to carry the fight to the American Weekly...