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THI RSPDAY, APRIL 19, 1951.
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Reds already have a name
+ Gen James Alward Van
ew boss of the Eighth Army
ea. They call him “Chief
tcher Van Fleet.”
: Fleet, who at B 9 is still a
¢ officer, won that title in
qeece three years ago when he
.ded the Joint U.~S. Military
\dvisory = and Planning Group
Tt as Lt. Gen Matthew B.
nideeway moves up to MacAr
thur's high command, he is being
scceeded in the field by a man
who has met the Reds—and beaten
«This war,” Van Fleet said in
eece, “is a first-class war of in
.ornational communism, It's a war
of annihilation with no respect
‘or the rules.”
First Public Stand £
That was when the U. S. was
t4oking its first public stand
.gainst Red aggression. While the
communist radio dubbed Van
“leet “butcher,” the Greeks had
sother name for him: “Taskmas
ter Van Fleet.” " r »
\iore of a taskmaster than a
eoldier-statesman like his 1915
west Point classmate Dwight
<icenhower, James Van Fleet has
een a combat infantryman most
of his military life,
He was wounded once in Fance
in World War I after serving un
or Pershing .on the Mexican
porder.
110 was wounded twice in World
wor 11, where, as a colonel who
rided himself on being a dough
v while classmates were already
onerals, he was among the first
{» hit the beach on D-Day.
The stars came fast to Van Fleet
shen. too. He learned, at first hand
she bold, swift tactics of Gen
(27 o Patton. Van Fleet's 90th
Nivision = troops led -the ' way
sroush the Ardennes -bulge; as
Third Corps commander he spear
weaded the Rhine river's Rema
gen bridgehead. ’
As Deputy Head
\iter that came two years at
c:overnor’s Island, New York, wind
ine upn as deputy commander of
‘he First Army before he went
1o Greece early in 1948 and be
came one of their most popular
Americans—and a highly unpop
ulor Yankee with the Reds.
ITntil then, the Greeks had been
tionting a timid, defensive war.
Van TFleet, who did not actually
command but supervised U. S.
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arms and supplies and gave ad
vice, changed the picture. He
needled the Greeks relentlessly.
And, like the combat doughboy
‘he has always claimed to be, he
- spent at least half of his time in
tHe field.
| “Morale,” he said then, “is al
ways better up front,” a philos
iophy that will help him fit into
the rugged Korean footsteps of
‘his predecessor, General Ridgeway.
| Like Patton
‘ Like the late General Patton,
from whom he learned his World
War II tactics, he is not noted for
his ability as an administrator or
diplomat. He was fond of break
in -up lengthy Greek arguments
by saying: “Let’s get on with it,
gentlemen. I would like to arrive
at a decision.”
When the Pentagon arrived at
the decission to put Van Fleet in
command of the fighting forces
in Korea, the New Jersey-born
general was ‘in Auburndale, Fla,,
on the fourth day of leave from
his Second Army command.
His wife, who had been with
him in Greece, hurried back to
Washington with him. They have
a son who's an Air Force officer
and two daughters who are mar
ried to Army lieutenant colonels.
Like General Ridgeway, Van
Fleet will probably become as fa
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lines, where “‘morale is always
better,” as was the fighting gen=
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THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA EReveßLy
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Anti-Trust Laws
Killed Rackefs
0f Big Gangsters
BY RICHARD KLEINER
NEA Staff Correspondent
Lepke Buchalter, the boss of
Murder, Inc, was a quiet man
with soft brown eyes. He always
dressed conservatively and had a
warm smile for . people he met,
Everybody liked him-—everybody,
that is, who lived to tell about it.
Buchalter made crime a big
business. He had some very orig
inal ideas about crime and they
paid off. He ran the rackets like a
businessman, He assigned murder
ers like a city editor assigns re
porters. He scattered witnesses
like a travel agent. He was often
called the “smartest crook.”
But two weapons of the law
trippeéd him up. One was a new
weapon—the anti-trust laws, The
other was a very old weapon-—the
stool-pigeon. In comrbination, the
two sent Buchalter to the electric
chair.
Actually, the police often won
dered why Lepke became a crim
inal at all. He was born in pov
erty, true, but so were his ten
brothers and sisters. All the oth
ers became very respectable citi
zens, Lepke, through school, al
ways had good marks in conduct,
attendance and school work. The
only explanation for his criminal
career is that he simply wanted to
be a gangster, as other kids aspire
to be firemen or cowboys.
Began At Bottom
When he was 18, he began at
the bottom. He robbed pushcarts
on New York’s Lower East Side.
Slowly, he worked his way up to
stores and offices. He was arrest
ed for robbery four tinres, sen
tenced three. But he was learn
ing.
He confided to his pal, “Gurrah
Jake” Shapiro, . that he didn’t
think the top racketeers in New
York were very smart, They killed
people indiscriminately. Lepke
said he .didn't believe in killing
people, unless there was some
profit in it. Then it was all right.
In 1927, ¢“Little Augie,” the
kingpin racketeer of the East
Side, was blasted to death in a
doorway. Stool - pigeons said
Lepke, Gurrah Jake and “Little
Hymie” Holtz had done the job,
but it couldn’t be proven. Lepke
took over, and put his theories to
work. *
One of the biggest sources of
revenue for racketeers had al
ways been labor unions. Union
bosses would hire thugs to keep
themselves in power, renting
enough gangland muscle to keep
union rebels in line. Lepke chang
ed the system a little—he had his
strong-arm squad do the job; then
they stayed in the union.
Union Bosses
The union bosses who hired
them couldn’t expose them; they'd
be exposing themselves. Lepke’s
men would gradually take over,
vote an increase in dues (which
went to Lepke) and control elec
tions.
Lepke wused similar tactics to
infiltrate businesses. His men
would be hired as strikebreakers,
then they'd stay. They'd beconre
foremen or vice-presidents and
supervise the books. Lepke got
generous cuts.
Anybody who kicked got the
acid-in-the-face treatment. Few
kicked. Those who were brave
enough to defy Lepke's acid
throwers were “hit.” That was
Lepke’s way of saying murdered.
Investigators later said that
Lepke had an iron grip on some
250 operations — unions, business~-
es and rackets—at one time. With
his men, murder was a career and
intimidation a profession.
3 Stayed Quiet
Lepke, himself, stayed quietly
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Frankie,aroundonieash. (NEA)
in the background. There were
rumors about @a man who ran this
wholesale murder monopoly, but
his nanre rarely got in print. He
never carried a gun himself, pre
ferring to read or play golf. His
associates called him “The Judge.”
The police knew about him,
though, and when Governor Leh
man appointed Tom Dewey to
bust the rackets in 1935, Dewey’s
announced aim was to get Lepke,
Gurrah Jake and their ally, Lucky
Luciano,
Jake wanted to “hit” Dewey,
but Lepke decided that wouldn’t
be smart. Instead, he hegan a
campaign to clear New York of
any possible witnesses. He prefer-
red to spirit them out of town and
supply them with funds to lay
low. If the witness objected, he
was “hit,”
One of those who objected was
a clothing trucker, Joseph Rosen,
Rosen’s body* was found riddled
with bullets in Brooklyn. That
comparatively insignificant mur«
der was to cost Lepke hig life,
In 1937
In 1937, Dewey had accumulat
ed enough evidence to indict
Lepke on violation of the Federal
anti-trust laws in connection with
racketeering in the rabbit fur
dressing industry. Lepke went
into hiding. For 21 months, he
stayed secluded in the under
world, directing his dwindling enx
pire from the shadows.
But he gave himself up when
public clamor over the rising mur
der rate—including several inno
cent bystanders - grew. He was
convicted and sentenced to 14
years in Leavenworth,
With Lepke safely in prison, the
stool-pigeons came out in force.
William O’Dwyer, then Brooklyn
district attorney, was able to get
death sentences for some of
Lepke's most distinguished killers
—men like Happy Malone, Bugg~
sy Goldstein, Pittsburgh Phil
Strauss and Dasher Abbandando.
One of the stool-pigeons was the
now-famous Abe “Kid Twist”
Reles, who jumped (or fell) (or
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hotel room.
| In 1941, O'Dwyer's prosecutor,
n Turkus, got L:&l:c Louis
Capone and Mendy W for ffi"’
‘ egrg murder in the Rosen kill
‘lng. was the testimeny of an
other stool-pigeon that clinched
the case against E;pko. Thig man
said he'd heard Lepke ng:
“That blankety-blank Rose lis
going around shooting his mouth
off that he’s going Downtown
(which meant Dewey). He and
nobody else are going down any
place or do any more talking—
or any talking at all.”
All three were convieted, All
were electrocuted, Lepke, the
world’'s champion silencer, was
silenced by a stool-pigeon.
4-H'ers Offered
Awards For Food,
Clothing Projects
One of the oldest and one of the
newest sponsors of national 4-H
programs will continue to offer
awards for outstanding work in
the 1951 home economics projects,
according to G. L. Noble, director,
National Committee on Boys and
Girls Club Work, and W. A. Sut
ton, state 4-H club leader.
They are Spool Cotton Co., of
New York, which is beginning &)
11th year as sponsor of the 4-H
Clothing Achievement program,
and Kelvinator Division of Nash-
Kelvinator Corp.,, Detroit, which
offered awards in the 4-H Food
Preparation program for the first
time last year. e .
The projects are wel Ind&:’ way
In Georgia. At the end of the 4-H
Club year, members’ records will
be judged on county, state and na
tional basis. The county and state
awards are the some ia both pro
grams: A gold-filled medal for
each county winner, and an all
expense trip to the National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago for the
state champion. In the eclothing
project, 12 national champions are
selected, and each receives a S3OO
college scholarship, Six mnational
food preparation experts are cho=
~ sen who also are given S3OO schol
arships.
By making their own clothes
and utilizing home grown foods in
planning family meals, Georgia’s
- young homemakers are saving val
~uable time and materials. As they
“learn by doing,” the 4-H’ers are
helping themselves as well as their
country in the present defense
Lndobilization program, Sutton stat-
The clothing and food prepara=-
tion programs are under the super
vision of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
A new mortar gun is for use in
applying mortar on bricks or
blocks without the skill required
in trowel application and with less
waste, It is an eleetrically opera
ted device with an endless screw
inside of the type used in familiar
meat grinders.