Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1929 — Page 25

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WARNS U. S. TO ARM FOR ORIVE ON RACKETEERS America Must Put Down Crime. Warns California Chief of Police. f * ' ' '/'/ •-//'• •*i r*t \* // jm r tU•7 i r BERKELEY, Cal., June 14 '.mrrira must arm for anew crime *■’ar. So warns Cluf of Police August Vollnif*:', lirari of the 'model police force of this college city, former president of the Intcrnaal A: ociation of Police Chiefs. • M? student in the crime labora‘ory of Chieaeo and professor-elect c: police administration at the University of Chicago. "America is confronted wih a holly new crime menace." said Yollmcr. This is the rarketeer. ‘ Racketeers, be it known, are orcanized terrorist, of the underworld. Hut not necessarily identified with booze interests. Their number is small, possibly r.ot more than 50.000 in the whole United States with 7,000 in Chicago. ■ But they are powerful because they are ccret. because their weapon is terror and because often they are in league with 1 . denizens of the upper world ' The menace of the racketeer is no: confined to Cook county, where in 1926 and 1927 tncrc occurred 760 murders They are problems in De•oit, St Louis. Boston. Kansas C.ty New York and e\cn in the Pacific coast cities "Racketeering began in the civilmafia, 'he Ncopolnan camorra rod among strike-breakers When bootlegging came to be an organized b ~;ne>s rival gangs or h.ghtackers . 'd the methods of the old Mafia to drive out their enemies •Finally the ra.se spread to ot iier busme - ses •Chicago :e.er.tl> listed :6$ deferent 'rackrts srd on.; one of (licse wa the e.v.y racket Voilnier listed some c: gangland s favorite rackets In Kansas City it i the "cleaning and dying racket. A cang enters the city to "organize the boss cleaners for a raise in price:. For a certain cut in the increased prices they undertake to force all the firms into the priccfixing combine. Those who refuse are given a taste njj, pine-apples" 'bomb.si. acid poured over the clothing or other forms of persuasion used. The theater racket is carried on by means of “stiiil? bombs.” The dental office racket employs acid or other forms of sang sabotage. In forcing apartment house owner into combines or in breaking union houses bombs are favored. Vollmer saw three big apartment houses in Chicago blown up by racketeers. Booze wars usually start when a beer or a ain gang tries to • muscle ' in” on some rival monopolist, as ! for instance, a wine gang that controls a portion of the city.

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WAR TRAINING IN U.S. WANES * Few Students Take Military Work. Survey Shows. B v Si tnrnrd \rirsprtpir .4lh'ni< r PALO ALTO. June 14—Military training in public schools is found to be decidedly on the wane in the United States. William G. Carr in a book on ' Education for World Citizenship,” published by the Stanford Press, found that since 1918 military instruction has steadily declined. Out of 17,710 high schools reporting to his survey in 1926 Carr found only 314 offering military drill, a percentage of only 1.8 per cent; out of 1,445,886 boys inrolled in these schools only 51,318 were taking military training, or 3.5 per cent. In 1918 the percentage was 16 ar.d in 1924 it was 4.7, Never, Carr found, has military training been popular in American colleges and universities. Even in 1918 only one in ten offered military training and one in four students took it. In 1924 there were only 47,574 college students enrolled in military courses. The University of Wisconsin has abandoned compulsory military courses. Carr found definite opposition to the idesj, among faculty men. Out of fifty-one professors of secondary education in teachers’ colleges and universities, only two approved and thirty-three were in decided opposition.

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