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WEDNESDAY, APR. 11, 1951

Mao Is Replaced

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od By United Press -.HONG KONG, Apr. 11 (UP)— Red China has announced its féader Mao Tze-tung has been temporarily” replaced by Liu Shao-chi, the nation's No. 2 Communist, an Indonesian diplomat said today. «+The announcement, he said, was carried in an official bulletin afd distributed to the diplomatic oalony in Peiping in early March. ‘He said the announcement said that Mao was ill. The diplomat, Soemarto, who Uke many Indonesians has no first name, served as third secretary to the Indonesian Embassy in Peiping until his departure for Hong Kong Mar. 13. Soemarto said his Embassy confirmed the announcement by a direct inquiry at the Peiping foreign office. Mao's reported illness and failure to attend official functions had been rumored in Hong Kong kince early last February At that time, it was thought he might have. gone to Moscow for treatment. J > en >

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do we do now? How can we imho prey on moral socievy? In this

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By RICHARD KLEINER Times Special Writer

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

Buchalter made crime a big business.

original ideas about crime and like a businessman. He assigned murderers like a city editor assigns reporters. He scattered witnesses like a travel agent. He was often called the ‘“smartest crook.” But two weapons of the law tripped him up, One was a new weapon--the antitrust laws, The other was a very old weapon the ‘stool pigeon. In combination, the two sent Buchalter to the electric chair. Actually, the police often wondered why IL.epke became a criminal at all. He was born in poverty, true, but so were his 10 brothers and sisters. All the others became very respectable citizens. Lepke, through school, always 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.

~ ~ = WHEN HE was 18, he hegan 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 arrested for robbery four times, sentenced three. But he was learning. 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

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there was some profit in it. Then it wags all right, In 1927, “Little Augie,” the kingpin racketper 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 o. 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, L.epke changed the system a little -he had his strong-arm squad do the job; then they staved in the union. . n " THE UNION bosses who hired them couldn't expose them: they'd be exposing them[.Lepke’s men would gradually take over, vote an increase in dues ‘which went to Lepke) and control elections. Anybody who kicked got the acid-in-the-face treatment. Few kicked. Those who were brave enough to defy Lepke's acidthrowers were “hit.” That was I.epke's way of saying murdered.

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HIMSELF, stayed quietly in the background. There were rumors about a man who ran this wholesale murder monopoly, but his’ name | rarely got in print. He never carried a gun himself, preferring to read or play golf. His

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associates called him “The | Judge.” The police knew about him, though, and when Gov. Lehman appointed Tom Deweyv to bust the rackets in 1935 "Mr. Dewey's announced aim was to | get Lepke, Gurrah Jake and their ally, Lucky Luciano. Jake wanted to “hit” Mr. Dewey. but Lepke decided that i wouldn't be smart. Instead, he began a campaign to clear New York of any possible witnesses. He preferred to spirit them out of town and supply them with funds to lay low. If the witness objected, he was “hit.” = " >

IN 1937, Mr. Dewey had accumulated enough evidence to indict Lepke on violation of the Federal antitrust laws in connection with racketeering in the rabbit fur-dressing industry. Lepke went into hiding. For 21 months he stayed seciuded in the underworld. directing his dwindling empire from the shadows. But he gave himself up when

Bishop Will Address Methodist Society

Bishop Richard C. Raines of | the Indiana Methodist Area will] give an address and install new officers at the meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian] Service of the Northwest Indiana! Methodist Conference. The conference will meet tonight and tomorrow in the Meth-! odist Church in Valparaiso. Mrs.| Charles, Marshall, D a rlington,| conference president, will preside. Women representing the 270 societies of the conference will attend. ’ Mrs. Otto Nall, vice president of the North Central Jurisdiction of the WSCS, also will speak. The Rev. H. J. Kieser is host pastor and Mrs. Paul Vietske, president of the host society, is chairman of convention arrangements.

DePauw Speaker Times State Service GREENCASTLE, Apr. 11—Dr. Y. P. Mei, authority on the Chinese people and the Communist revolution in his country, will speak at DePauw University at 10 a. m., Friday. Dr. Mei, currently visiting professor of philosophy at Wabash College, will speak on “China in Revolution.”

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