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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. *S. C. Crime in America By ESTES KEFAUVER United States Senator Five of a Series Corruption of a Small Town: Case Study So far in this series, the pattern suggested is that crime and contempt for the law is a big city operation. This is not necessarily so. The smaller cities and towns have it, too. Sometimes, as our senate cpmmittee was to learn, crime in smaller places was conducted as a suburban, or branch, operation of the n Barest big city gang. This was particularly true in the Chi cago and New York areas. On the other hand, there also is the phenomenon of the wide-open small-town, free from big city gang influence and where the local operator—usually a single “string loan”—is able to operate without paying any particular tribute to the law. In many big cities, young people come into maturity with an attitude of contempt for the law, because they see and hear almost daily, that criminals, through alliances with conniving politicians and crooked law enforcement officers, are bigger than the law. It would be a frightful thing if this same disil lusionment should spread to the small-town youngsters of America The committee touched briefly on one such case study in its ques tioning, both privately and in pub lic hearings in Chicago, of a man tiamed Thomas J. Cawley. In a way, Cawley, a stocky, un abashed, monosyllabic witness, was a refreshing change from the pro cession of hoodlum witnesses whose carefully rehearsed refrain, “I re fuse to answer on the ground ,it might tend to incriminate me,’’ be came so grating to our ears. He, at least, made no bones of the fact that Thomas J. Cawley was the un disputed gambling king of two small Illinois towns—LaSalle, population, 12,023, and Streator, population. 16,442. The two towns, both in La Salle bounty, are about 27 miles apart. I should like to quote simple and unadorned excerpts from the official record of the examination of this small-town gambler. Cawley s first appearance was in executive (closed) session, Oc tober ro, 1950, at the U.S. Court house in Chicago. Q. What is your business, Mr. Cawley? A. A cigar store operator. Q. What other business do you have? A I operate l. farm and a book. Q. Where do you operate your book? A. 621 First st., LaSalle, 111 Q. Is that the only book you op erate? A. I operate one in Strea tor, 111. , Q. Is it (the Streator operation) solely a book? A. Well, it is a gam bling room, is what it is. We have dice. Q. You also have gambling equip ment? A. Yes. Q. What type of games do* you run? A. Dice. Q. Roulette? A Roulette, LaSalle, and that is all. Cawley went on to say that be employs about 65 to 70 persons in LaSalle; this includes his restau rant, bar and cigar store em ployees. in addition to the gambling help. Q. How long have you operated the book there? A. I imagine . . . around 15 years. Q. Is that in LaSalle? A. In La Salle; at Streator, I would say 10 years. Q. Who is sheriff of that county? A. The sheriff now is Ryan. Q. How long have you known him? A. I hardly know the man. Did you know Mike Welter? A. Yes, sir ... He wa3 sheriff three terms . Q. Did you contribute to the cam paign funds of any of the other Sher iff’s? A. No, sir; only Mike Welter. Q. How much did you contribute to his campaign? A. $500. Q. Mike Weltpr knew what busi ness you were in? A. I wouldn’t know whether he would or not. Q. What we want to get at is: How can you run wide open down there without the. sheriff knowing About it and doing something about it? It is generally known, is it not, that you operate these places? A. That is right. I was born and raised there. I had a good friend, the may or of the town, and he wouldn’t let none of them politicians come into our city. Q. He would not let any politicians come in? A. He wouldn’t let them politicians come from the county into the city from LaSalle. ■ Q. He would not let the sheriff come in? A. That is right. Q. So he is the one who let you keep on running; is that it? A. He never let me keep on running. He didn’t do any more for me than he would for anybody else. Anybody can go down in that town right to day and open up, and it doesn’t cost them a 5-cent piece. Q. The sheriff does not botler you. A. That is right. Q. Do the people like it, you think? A. I think they do—90 per cent of them. Q. What is the present Chief of THE WHITE SHEEP Police’s name? A. Eddie Kas- prowicz, something like that. Q. He knows what business you were in? A. Yes. Everybody in town knows what business I am in. Q. Do you pay money for protec tion? A. No, sir. Q. Never have paid any money? A. No. When I do, I will get out of business. *V Q. Do you contribute any money to political parties? A I might con tribute to both parties a ch^ck . . a hundred dollars here or a hundred dollars there; yes . . . Q. That was to the political party, but to no particular individual? A. That is right. • • • Further questioning revealed thai Cawley’s business was a family enterprise of which he owned 52 per cent. His share of the nfet profits the previous year (1949) was ap proximately $67,000. He said his partners were a brother and two sisters; that they “absolutely’’ were not connected “with anyone from Chicago’’ or elsewhere, and that when they (the Chicago element) come in, I go out.’’ We next delved into Cawley’s connections with the racing wire service. He was in that business, too, in both towns. His ticker Serv ice, which he bought from one df the Continental Press distributors, was cut off at LaSalle shortly before he testified but still was operating at Streator. Q. You had never been raided? A. Yes; I was raided once ... I have had one conviction. Q. What was that? A. Web. run ning a gaming house. Then, two months later, tut com mittee had Mr. Cawley back ia Chi cago for examinations in open hear ings. In the meantime we had read in the Chicago newspapers that, the day after he told us in executive session that he ran without inter ference, his place in LaSalle was shut down tight by order of the mayor. In Streator, the police chief was quoted as saying he had called at Cawley’s Paddock club out found “nothing but punchboards and lucky bowls.” But the following is what we heard from, the still unruffled Cawley. Q. Do you still have an estab lishment in both places (LaSalle and Streator)? A. That is correct. Q. Are they still operating? A. That is right. Q. Have they been down to speak of for any period of time in the last two or three months? A. Very little. Q. Everything is going the same as usual? A. Yes. • • • Cawley went on to list, perfectly frankly, in response to questions, all the forms of gambling in which he was engaged. In addition to the horse books, he listed a baseball pool, punchboards, roulette and a small poker game. Slot machines had been out for some time. Still curious as to how*-he got away with it, I picked up the ques tioning. Q. How do you account for the fact that you can operate the way you can, Mr. Cawley? A. Well, it has been going on down there for 25 years. Q. You said 90 per cent of the people like it? A. That is right. We had an election down there that proved that. Q. Tell me about that? A. The sheriff—two sheriffs run, one runs on an anti-gambling ticket and the other fellow runs on an open ticket, and the fellow on the open ticket wins the election. Q. Don’t ybu sell liquor in your places? A. . . . They took my liquor license away from me. Q. And when did they take the liquor license away from you? A. After I got back from this meeting the last time. (Laughter in the hear ing room.) Q. But you still sell liquor? A. That is right. Q. But it hasn’t made any dif ference in your operation? A. No No. Next week: Playground. Miami: A Polluted Condensed from the book, “Crime In America,” by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951. Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Dist. General Features Corp.—WNU. Capone's Brother is Justice of Peace CHICAGO—A long-lost, almost for gotten brother of ♦he late A1 Capone has been located by government in vestigators, living the life of a peaceful, law-abiding citizen. Assistant US attorney Lawrence Miller said the man is James Ca pone, 63 year old ex-town marshall and now a justice of the peace at Homer, Neb., where he is known as Richard J. Hart. The information was disclosed as the first witness appeared before the grand jury investigating alleged in come-tax evasion by another Ca pone brother, Ralph. Hart was summoned before jury to explain why he holds title to Ralph’s home near Merced, Wis. Hart reportedly was not in contact with the Capone family for 33 years. He left home at 16 to join a circus. Hunting Luck? Who has the most luck in hunt ing? According to Henry P. Davis, public relations manager, Rem ington Arms Company, Inc., “hunt ing luck” is a minus quantity and the fellow who has the most suc cess in hunting is the fellow who works the hardest at it. “Hunting is pretty much like Inything else,” says Davis. “We get just about what we put into it. If we’re out to enjoy an outing and get the fullest benefit of the many, many facets of the outdoors In its varied moods, we can let the game bag become incidental and take our chances with ‘hunt er’s luck.' This is probably the only way we can really get the full measure of pleasure from a trip afield, for there is a lot more to be found in hunting and fishing than just getting game or catch ing fish. Luck Too Unsure “But if we’re out after ‘meat in 1 h e pot’,” trusting to ‘hunter’s luck’ will seldom grease the skil let. To bag game or catch fish we must not only have a certain amount of know-how but we must also put out a considerable amount of effort in making that know-how work. I used to hunt quail with an older friend who seemed to be just in the right Shooting position every time a Bob White flushed. If game was walked up, he was in variably the one who flushed it. I called him ‘lucky’ until observa tion taught me that he was work ing at the job of hunting every minute in the field. He was a keen student of wild life habits, knew what kind of cover to hunt at what time of day, watched the shifting of the wind, etc. His re markable ‘luck’ was merely an energetic application of knowledge gained through hunting experi ence. “Of course, hard work afield will not alone fill the game bag. A supply of game has to be there first. But the interested and energetic hunter will generally do something about seeing that proper habitat conditions prevail on the hunting grounds he uses regu larly. Creel Census 'Indicative “A recent creel census on the fresh, waters of the state of Mary land, conducted cooperatively by the Department of Game and In land Fish and the Department of Research and Education, shows that in that state 10% of the fish ermen catch 46% of the fish. And 53% of the fishermen catch the re maining 54% of the fish. What happens to the other 37% of the fishermen, you might ask. Well, according to the census, they sim ply catch NO fish. And that is what is generally known as ‘fish ermen’s luck’. “I don’t know how closely these figures come to covering the game harvesting situation, but I do not think they would be far off the beam if so applied. “In explaining the figures of the census, Harold J. Elser, biologist. Department of Research and Edu cation, said: ‘In the world of economics, a few people have large incomes, a lot of people have mod erate incomes and many more are in the low income bracket. In the world of fishing, a few of the anglers catch a lot of fish, a much larger percentage catches a mod erate amount of fish and another large group catches nothing. Al though the fisheries manager would like to spread the catch more evenly, there is little he can do about it. The people in the “catch nothing” group are either not interested in anything but the hard-to-catch fish or are those peo ple who do not have a suffeient amount of know-how, luck or pa tience.’ ” Versatile Hoop Net There are numerous ways by which a commercial fisherman may capture his thirty-five-cents-a-pound catfish and twenty-five-cent buf falo. He can use hoop nets, trotline, gill nets and trammel nets. The hoop net is the most versatile and popular of the lot, with the pos sible exception of the trotline. Hoop nets are simple in design, their suc cess lying in the fisherman’s skill and his ability to think like a fish. They are constructed from white oak or dogwood hoops, three feet in diameter and covered with tarred net so as to form a furneled cylinder. Once a fish enters the first funnel or “throat,” it is unlikely that he will find his way out. Yard Training Since it’s about time for taking gun dogs afield again, a word about yard training may not be amiss here. Before a pup is taken afield,‘he should have some private tutoring to leam simple obedience and the meaning of a few spoken commands. This yard training, as it is called, may begin in the pup’s sixth or seventh month—or as soon as he’s old enough to know what it’s all about. Serve Baked Beana for Informal Sappers (See Recipes Below) Festive Buffet Sappers THIS IS the season for a flurry of sports activity such as football, baseball and hockey. If there are teen-aged boys and girls in your home, or if the man of the house is an enthusiast of one of the sports, you’re in line to be asked to serve a t least one “after the game supper.” These are won derful occasions because you need food hearty and easy to prepare. The serving is even more simply done because the oc casion is so informal. Push the din ing room table against the wall, or use a large buffet. A centerpiece set against the wall is nice, if it’s seasonal. Then plan to cover most of the table with food, and leave a bit of space for a stack of plates, napkins and usually, a single fork for each person. Most buffet suppers of this kind can be eaten readily with a single fork. Another centerpiece uses a shal low bowl of garden flowers in a massed arrangement. Use needle point flower holders for the flowers, and also for attaching “penants” made small, with construction pa per, and glued to thin sticks. One menu which will certainly prove popular includes baked beans, served in a bean pot or an old-fash ioned casserole of the pottery type. Serve this with molasses bran brown bread with cream cheese, if you / ^ =s ' hke, sliced to- I f matoes, pickles, \^A/( celery, and an apple crisp pudding or a fruit cob bler for dessert. • • • Deluxe Baked Beans (Serves 6) 1 uncooked medium ham hock (H pound) 1 No. 2 can baked beans, with out tomato sauce 1 large onion, peeled and chopped % cup catsup t 3 tablespoons brown sugar VA tablespoons dry mustard V* teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon vinegar 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 4 whole cloves 1 No. 2 can pineapple chunks Remove meat from ham bone and odd to beans which may be placed right into the casserole. Stir in onion, then pour in catsup and syr up from pineapple. Sprinkle over all the brown sugar, mustard, pepper, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. Dot four chunks of the pineapple with 'the cloves and reserve for last. Sink ham bone into center of the bean mixture, and arrange pine apple around the bone. Place the pineapple with cloves on last. Cover and bake in a moderate (350°F.) oven for one hour; remove cover and bake about 15 minutes longer until brown. For a crowd, multiply recipe accordingly and bake in large pans. / • • • *Molasses Bran Brown Bread (Makes 2 loaves) 1 cup ready-to-eat bran A cup seedless raisins 2 tablespoons shortening H cup pure dark molasses LYNN SAYS: Refrigerate Foods To Speed Preparation If you don’t want to do all your food preparation before a meal, many good things can be mixed in advance, then refrigerated until cooking or baking time. Thin batters like those for waf fles and griddlecakes can be made in advance then refrigerated, pro vided they are tightly covered to prevent crusting. If desired, thin With a little milk before using. LYNN CHAMBER’S MENU Baked Beans with Tomato Sauce ♦Molasses Brown Bread with Cream Cheese Cabbage-Carrot Slaw Baked Apples Cream Cookies Beverage •Recipe Given 94 cup boiling water 1 egg 1 cup sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 94 teaspoon salt 94 teaspoon cinnamon Measure bran, raisins, shortening and molasses into mixing bowl. Add hot water and stir until shortening is just melted. Add egg and beat well. Sift together flour, soda, salt and cinnamon; add to molasses mixture stirring only until just combined. Fill two greased cans (the size used for baked beans) about % full. Bake in a moderate (350°F.) oven for 45 minutes. Remove from cans and serve while hot. * • • HOT TAMALE pie is an excellent main dish for a buffet meal. With it served a salad of mixed greens and a light oil dressing. Cherry Up side Down Cake wins cheers for des sert. Hot Tamale Pie (Serves 6) 94 cup cornmeal 194 cups water 94 teaspoon salt 194 cups evaporated milk 1 tablespoon fat 1 small onion 1 cup ground raw beef 1 cup tomatoes 1 pimiento 94 teaspoon salt Measure meal into heavy sauce pan. Add water and 94 teaspoon salt. Boil until mixture begins to thick en, then add milk and continue boil ing 8 to 10 minutes, stirring con stantly. Chop onion and cook slowly in fat until yellow. Add meat and cook until red color disappears, then add tomatoes, pimiento, cay enne and 94 teaspoon salt. Turn into a baking dish which has been lined with 94 of the mush. Cover with re maining mush and bake in a mod erate (350®F.) oven for 45 minutes. • • • Cherry Upside Down Cake (Makes 9-inch round) TOP: 194 cups well drained fresh, can ned or frozen cherries 94 cup light corn syrup 94 teaspoon cinnamon 1 tablespoon butter CAKE: 94 cup shortening 94 cup sugar 1 egg, beaten . 1 cup sifted cake flour 194 teaspoons baking powder 94 teaspoon salt 94 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Place cherries, syrup, cinnamon and butter in saucepan and simmer 10 minutes. Cool. Pour into a well- buttered 9-inch round or square pan. Cream shortening, add sugar and egg and beat until fluffy. Sift to gether flour, baking powder and salt and add alternately to cream ed mixture with milk mixed with vanilla. Pour over cherries. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in a moderate (350°F.) oven. Do you have difficulty keeping the breaded coating on meats and fish when frying? Chill after breading and they’ll stay on better. Yeast dough for rolls, buns or bread refrigerates well when cov ered, for several days. Store shaped or in bowls and let rise in a 90°F. oven or at room temperature before baking. Cookies will be more tender and crisp if you allow the dough to stand in tiie refrigerator. Or, slip well- wrapped dough in one of the freez ing trays if business is “rushing,” SEWIN6 CIRCLE PATTERNS Perfect Team for School Days It's Flattering to All Sizes BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN SCRIPTURE: Genesis 27:1—33:17. DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalm 4. God's Untuned Harp Lesson for October 14, 1951 C AN the perfect God make use of an imperfect man? He has to; there is no other kind. God is the perfect musician; his # melodies and harmonies are flaw less; but he has to play these on the harp of humanity, twanging strings easily broken, never long well- tuned. One such doubt ful string was young Jacob. He improved immense ly, later in life; but at the time of the incident de scribed in Genesis 28 he was a very rough diamond indeed. His own home was too hot for him. His fath er had been bitterly disappointed in him; his twin and only brother Esau had sworn to kill him at the first chance. He was a swindling liar, leaving home on the run. If he had treated his neigh bors with the same lack of con science he had shown toward Isaac and Esau, there must have been “many a dry eye” when the news went around that Jacob had left town. As a matter of fact, he kept on, for some years after this, being the same sort of sharp trader he had always been. His dream at Bethel did not con vert him, as is sometimes thought; if it did, his conversion waited 20 years to “take.” If the reader will examine Jacob’s vow in Gen. 28:20- 22, he can see that it does not ex press a very lofty view of religion on Jacob’s part. Jacob makes his promise to the Lord with a large IF attached; IF the Lord will prosper him, keep him safe, bring him back and so forth, THEN he will give the Lord ten per cent. Who would not pay a ten per cent commission for guaranteed protection and pros perity? No, we cannot say that Jacob at this time was saintly. * • • God’s Purpose A ND yet God spoke to him, made great promises to him. Was this only a conceited dream of Jacob’s? It was a dream, of course, as the writer frankly says (verse 12); but was the dream only the kind of thing that psychologists call “wish- fulfilment,” with no meaning except to show what Jacob had been think ing about? Or did the dream stand for something real? The general belief of the church is that God really did have a concern for this man and did speak to him through his dream, even though it was the kind of dream which perhaps only a Jacob could have had. But how could the perfect God “make a covenant” or come to any terms with such a man as Jacob then was? The answer is probably in the story itself and in what fol lowed it. God had a purpose far beyond Jacob the man. He had a plan for him too; but it fitted into a far greater plan for mankind. “In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed” refers, Christians believe, to Jesus Christ and what he has meant and will mean to the world. Without Jacob, and the race which would call him their ances tor, Jesus would not have been. • • • God’s Harp Has Many Strings O NE of the most remarkable titles for God in the Bible is “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Exodus 3:6). We might expect the first name; we are astonished to hear the other two. Abraham, of course, was a great spiritual pioneer. He was great in other ways too; a man who would be outstanding in any age, in any place,—one of the great religious geniuses of all time. Of course God is the God of such men, we expect it. But what about Isaac and Jacob? Isaac was a nonentity, a weak character, far from bright. Even his sins were sec ond-hand. As for Jacob, even after he became a changed man, as in time he did, his old crooked record remained a fact. The Bible does not try to con ceal it. Then can God be the God of the weak and the God of the sinner? Yes, that is the glory of the God who is revealed in his Word. Other religions know of gods who are friends of top-level human beings, genuises and saints; only the reli gion of the Bible knows of a God who takes a personal interest in the weak and who pursues the sinner to change him. Only the Bible knows of a God who draws to himself all sorts and conditions of men, and makes use of them for his great and gracious purposes. (Copy right 1951 by the Dlvisien ef Christian Education, National ConneU of the Chvrehes ef Christ la the United States of America. Released by WNU Featsres.) 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Box No. dity State i Double Trouble “Darling, you would be a mar velous dancer but fpr two things “What are they, sweetheart?” “Your feet.” Definition And then there was the Alpha Phi who was so dumb she thought a buttress was a female goat. —•— Be Fair Householder (facing burglar with revolver)—“Put all that stuff back on the sideboarl at once, do you hear?” Burglar—“Lumme, gov’nor, not all of it; be fair! ’Arf of it belongs next door.” —•— • Out of Work Mrs. Brown’s husband was a writer, and he pounded the type writer at home, turning out manu scripts of one kind and another, which he sold for sufficient re compense to enable the Browns to afford a maid. The new girl had been working only a little over a week, however, when she came to her mistress, and said: “You pay me four dollars a week, mum.” “Yes, Sally,” Mrs. Brown ac knowledged. “And I can’t afford to pay you any more than that.” “I know, mum,” Sally agreed, glancing back at the room where Mr. Brown was reading up on a subject about which he was pre paring to write an article. “But I, want to be fair, mum. I’m willin’ to work for only three dollars till your husband gets a job.” —•— ■ • The Winner Binks bought a new shirt, and on a piece of paper pinned to the inside found the name and ad dress of a girl, with the words, “Please write and send photo.” Scenting a romance, he wrote to the girl and sent his photo. In due course he received a reply. It was only a note. “My chum and I ha^ a bet on,” it read, “as to what sort of a fellow would wear a shirt like that, l^y chum said a dude, I said a shrimp, and I’m glad to say I won.” Blue-Bloodhound Mrs. Profiteer—“Is this a pedi gree dog?” Dealer — “Pedigree? I should just think ’e is, Mum. Why, if the animal could only talk ’e wouldn’t speak to either of us.” —•— Cheer Up “Good morning, sir. I’m a oond salesman.’f “That’s all right, my good fel low. Here’s a half dollar—go buy yourself a square meal.” tsumms. T It’s so easy to relieve coughs and stuffiness of colds in a hurry this home-proved way — with 2 spoonfuls of Vicks VapoRub in a vapor izer or In a bow) of boiling water as directed in package. Just breathe in the steam! Every single breath carries VapoRub’s soothing medi cations deep into throat and large bronchial tubes. It medicates irritated mem- branes, helps restore normal breathing. 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