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...Alleys," the Degraw Street Gang, the Sackett Street gang, "The Harrisons," the Bush Street Gang, and 21 other boys' gangs were the subjects of a report of the New York State Crime Commission which told, last week, of its findings in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. The Red Hook section was chosen because the percentage of juvenile delinquencies is five times as high there as in any other Brooklyn territory...
...boys who comprise the gangs have to undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
Most of the gang members range in age from 9 to 16. Italian boys form their own gangs. Irish, German, Swedish boys run together indiscriminately. Syrians keep to themselves. Porto Ricans will not associate with Negroes, and Brazilians will not associate with Porto Ricans. Racial friction is an outgrowth of ancestral antipathies, since most of the young men's fathers, who are universally engaged in the stevedoring business, do not care to mingle with foreigners...
...would think that Chicago with its $100,000,000 annual liquor business, with its $30,000,000 paid for protection, would have enough profits for all the hoodlums. But each gang has its eye on a monopoly. They encroach upon one another's territory, raid one another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis...
...sects; to work the mountaineers into a frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good...