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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C
Crime in America
By ESTES KEFAUVER
United States Senator
Eight of a Series
Brass Into Gold: The Black Market
ttt mar keting—the ugly racket that plagued America in
World War II—was threatening again to become a menace. There
was reason to suspect that racketeering money once again was in it.
So midw ?y in its investigations into ‘the shame of the cities,”
the Senate Crime Committee turned to this phenomenon of national
scope.
We singled out a particularly flagrant case, involving illegal
sugar operations, the shoddy story of Eatsum Food Products. Eat-
sum was a candy company owned by a manufacturer David George
Uubben, of Woodcliff Lake, N. J.
Lubben went to New York during
the war years to go into business
for himself as a candy wholesaler
and manufacturer. The Eatsum
company which he bought had not
been in business long enough, un
der OPA regulations, to have any
appreciable sugar quota.
1 Then he met William Giglio, a
smart operator, and Frank Livorsi,
an ex-convict. The pair had ac
quired a jelly factory with a sugar
quota of 14,006,000 pounds a year.
As Lubben told us, all he could
think was that “14,000,000 pounds
would make me as big as Hershey.”
Soon the operator and the ex
convict were h>s partners in Eat
sum, and then came the inexorable
finale: Lubben was out and they
were in.
Livorsi, the 47-year-old ex-con
vict, was an admitted friend of
such underworld characters as
Frank Costello, Willie Moretti, and
others. He had been arrested, ac
cording to his own recollection, at
least 10 times, including twice on
homicide charges. His only convic
tion, however, was a two-year sen
tence for narcotics peddling.
Could Livorsi, we asked, think
of any legitimate business he ever
was in before he went to jail? “I
can’t think of any legitimate busi
ness,” he suddenly replied. In 1945,
Livorsi teamed up with smooth-talk
ing William Giglio, then 30 years old.
They acquired Tavern Fruit Juice,
a jelly manufacturing business. With
the company came the precious
sugar quota.
Lubben made a deal to transfer
a 50 per cent interest in his com
pany to Giglio and Livorsi; the sale
price was around $40,000, but Lub
ben claimed his new partners ac
tually paid nothing until they had-
drawn out enough profits to effect
a 1 tpaper” liquidation of the pur
chase price. In exchange for half
of his business, Lubben said, his
new partners “were to see that I
got some sugar.” But, he mourn
fully related, he “never got so much
sugar that you could sweeten your
coffee with.”
• • •
Lobben was no angel. He con
fessed that he set up arrangements
for buying corn syrup by making
under-the-table black market pay
ments to farmers and selling it on
the same basis. Everything was
done for cash and, in five months
of 1945, more than $400,000 in cash
was received from these transac
tions, Lubben testified. <
The money was kept in “a little
green cash box” hidden in “a panel
in back of the bar in the wall” of
Giglio’s office. “The last time I
knew about it there was $140,000
in there.”
But Lubben, after about nine
months, lost both his nerve and
his taste for the fantastic deal. He
had a harder time getting away
from Giglio & Co. than Br’er Rab
bit had with the Tar Baby. The
business at that time, according to
Lubben’s figures (disputed by Gig
lio) was worth $940,000.
Lubben claimed he took back the
lease on the plant and machinery
he originally had in the Bronx and
turned everything else over to the
Giglio group, with the. understanding
“that they would pay my income tax
for the nine months in which 1 was
a partner.” "In fact,” said Lub
ben. “they later on charged me
back, about $23 because some
raisins 1 had in the warehouse
shrunk a little bit” *
Senator Tobey asked Lubben if
lie had not had “a sense of appre
hension and fear that if you did
not play ball and do what they said,
they might do physical harm to
you?”
t “I did, yes, I did,” Lubben fer
vently replied. “That was the rea
son I wanted to get away from
them.” He had counted, he went
on, on receiving half of the money
In the cash box. But when he asked
Giglio about it, Lubben testified,
Giglio coldly told him, “You know
we had OPA trouble.”
“I said,” Lubben continued. “ ‘I
don’t know anything about it, but
certainly you had not $140,000
worth.’
“In that office that day were
Frank Livorsi, John Ormonte and
a couple of other people. I looked
around there, and Giglio said, ‘You
are not going to get my money.* ”
LAWRENCE CLEARED
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So Lubben, letting discretion be
the better part of valor, walked out.
The final snapper was that he never
got his income tax paid by his ex
partners. either.
William Giglio was evasive. But
step by step Counsel Rudolph Halley
led him through an absorbing recital
of his career.
His Tavern Fruit Juice Co. en
gaged in a sharp operation. The
years before, Giglio explained, man
ufacturers were being encouraged
by OPA to make as much jelly as
they could: “In 1944 fats and oils
and butter were in short supply
and OPA requested of all jelly man
ufacturers to manufacture more
spreads, more bread spreads.”
Tavern manufactured jellies from
sugar it received under OPA allot
ment but, again in Giglio’s own
words, “all of our imitation-flavored
jellies were* sold to a very limited
number of customers, only the top
customers in the country.” These
customers, it developed, were large
cookie manufacturers, short on
sugar themselves, who were buying
Tavern’s products as “baker’s jel
ly” and paying, as Halley charged,
a “premium price.”
At the time he testified, Giglio
(his own corporation in bankruptcy
and under investigation by the In
ternal Revenue Bureau) had found
a new position as general manager,
he said, of a pharmaceutical firm.
All throughout our investigations,
the committee discovered evidence
of infiltration of legitimate business
fields by crimesters and their as
sociates. We saw it in Chicago,
where Joe Fusco, once labeled a
“public enemy” by the Chicago
Crime Commission became one of
the city’s largest wholesale liquor
dealers. We saw it in Miami, where
hoodlums took over hotels. The
committee found more than 70 sep
arate types of businesses into which
countless hoodlums had infiltrated.
• • •
This pattern is a familiar and of
ten a vicious one. It begins with the
hoodlum finding himself with more
money than he knows what to do
with, accrued, of course, from his
illegal ventures.
A good example is Newark gang
ster Abner (Longie) Swillman, con
fessed rum-runner and strong-arm
man of the prohibition era, named
by former District Attorney William
O’Dwyer of Brooklyn as one of the
old leaders of “The Combination”
which ran “Murder, Inc.”
Zwillman wound up the prohibition
era with a fortune. Now he is a
participant in a tobacco vending
machine company, a truck sales and
parts agency, a trading company
that buys and sells auto equipment
and used machinery, another com
pany that deals in scrap iron, and
a company that places and operates
some 700 washing machines in
apartment buildings.
He also has investments held for
him in the names of other persons.
He declined to give us information
about these because “sometimes my
name kills a deal.”
None of us on the Committee
would deny the right of an honestly
repentent wrong-doer. But there
was too much evidence before us
of the unreformed hoodlum gaining
control of a legitimate business,
then utilizing all his old mob tricks
—strong-arm methods, bombs, even
murder—to secure advantages over
legitimate competitors. All too often
such competition either ruins legiti
mate business men, or drives them
into emulating or merging with the
gangsters.
• • •
The hoodlums also are clever at
concealing ownership of their busi
ness investments. A legitimate busi
ness is a very convenient front for
a gambler or criminal. It can be
used as a “cover” for the profits of
his illegal operations, enabling him
to defraud the governlnent of taxes.
Another drawback is the basic
unwholesomeness of having gang
sters in control of companies that
perform vital services or distribute
necessary commodities to the pub
lic.
Next Week: Kansas City: Law Of
the Jungle.
Condensed from the book, “Crime In
America.” by Estes Kefauver.. Cpr. 1951.
Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Dist. General
Features Coro.—WNU.
Pittsburgh Mayor not Party to Deal
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—A grand jury
cleared Pittsburgh’s mayor David
H. Lawrence of misdemeanor in of
fice in connection with the city’s re
cent $3,500,000 street lighting scan
dal.
The misdemeanor had charged
that the mayor, a national Demo
cratic committeeman, had failed to
make a coal company and a main
tenance corporation live up to their
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE: Exodus 3—4.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Deuteron-
omy 32:1-9.
God and a Man
Lesson for November 4, 1951
W
HEN God created this world he
Dr. Foreman
contracts with the city.
Four other officials of the city,
however, and three top men of a
New York maintenance firm were
indicted on charges ranging from
misdemeanor to bribery and con
spiracy.
The men were charged with swin
dling the city on a street lighting
'•system let to the Broadway Main*
tenance Corporation.
did it by himself. Since that
time, where affairs of this planet
are concerned, when God wants
to do something for mankind or
for a man, he sel
dom does it by him
self. He always has
assistants.
When God wants
to raise a crop of
wheat he never
raises it alone.
When God wants to
feed a city he feeds
it by the innumera
ble hands of farm
ers, merchants,
carriers of cargo the world around.
When God wants children cured of
diptheria he does so—with the help
of the men who discovered and per
fected diphtheria anti-toxin.
Doubtless God could work alone;
but just as doubtless, he seldom
does. Even when God wants to split
a granite cliff in the wilderness, he
does not use a magic axe; he uses
things we can see: the frost-crystals
and the sunshine.
—- • • •
God’s Man for God’s Work
»nHIS is also the story the Bible
^ tells. Centuries ago there were
some thousands of slaves in Egypt,
Hebrew slaves, descended from the
free man Abraham. God, we are
told, wanted those slaves set free.
How would you have expected
God to do it? If God is all-powerful,
if he can do just anything he wants
to do, and he wants these men set
free, how will he do it? Will he
reach down a mighty hand and lift
them as you might lift a handful of
the smalest ants, and set them down
on some bit of free soil far away
from Egypt? Will he send an army
of angels to batter down the for
tresses of Egypt, destroy her
armed forces and set his people
free?
Let us waste no time arguing
whether God could or could not
do such things. Let us assume
that he could. The point is: he
did not.
He called a man, a man named
Moses. Already Moses had gone
through a long life, and perhaps he
thought of himself as at the end of
his trail. If Moses had been asked,
he might even have said that all his
life’s experiences had gone for noth
ing. But God knew better. God knew
that everything that had formed
Moses’ mind and character—his
family, his training and education,
even the long lonely years as scout
and sheepherder at the back of be
yond,—everything in his past life
was to be useful in the most impor
tant part of his life that still lay
ahead. For God’s work, Moses was
God’s man.
• * •
Moses Has Many Opposite
Numbers
J UST as Moses was God’s personal
agent in liberating the slaves
from Egypt, so down through the
centuries Moses has had his “op
posite numbers”—men and women
who have brought to pass what
(religious persons find reason to be
lieve) God intends to bring to pass.
God wanted the good news about
Jesus to be spread throughout the
world. But this has come to pass
only as Paul and a long line of mis
sionaries have gone through one
country after another with the mes
sage of God. God wanted the rec
ords of Jesus* life, or at least some
facts about Jesus and his teachings,
put down in writing and not left to
men’s memories.
But he did not write the Gos
pels—he inspired certain men to
write them. God wanted the
Christian world, in our time, to
awake to the “open sore of
Africa” and to send mission
aries to that dark continent.
But he chose a man, David Liv
ingstone, to do this for him.
Wilberforce was God’s agent for
freeing the slaves of Great Britain,
as Lincoln and many another were
in America.
• • •
God’s Ways Are Not
Always Understood
I T is easier to say these things
years or centuries after the event
than at the time they happen.
Moses at first could not be
lieve he was the man God
wanted; tried in fact to talk God
out of it. Jeremiah doubted
whether he should ever have
been a prophet. Lincoln often
had moods of the blackest.
John Calvin sat up half the
night in a Geneva boarding
house giving Pastor Farel all
the good reasons why he, Cal
vin, could never be a suitable
man for the very job in which
he became a famous hero.
Even God’s own man sometimes
does not realize his greatness. But
God knows! And in time we all do.
(Copyright 195: by the Division of
Christian Edncation, National Council
of the Churches of Christ in the United
States of America. Released by WNU
Features.)
Ham and Eggs Make a Supper Loaf
(Set Recipe Below)
Supper Topics
“WHAT’S* FOR SUPPER, Mom?”
Once the homemaker has spent a
lot of time preparing a big dinner,
she's apt to feel it’s a bit of a strain
to think of supper.
She’s right, of course! Supper
should be simple, though satisfying.
Families require
something good
tasting and nour
ishing and when
the main dish
can be prepared
easily from in-
gredients on
hand, so much
the better.
Once the main
dish has been decided on, a salad
and very light dessert with bever
age should easily complete the
meal.
* * *
HAM AND EGGS can be a fine
dish, and there’s no reason why this
all-American team has to be simply
a breakfast standby. The same basic
combination of ham and eggs, toast
and coffee can be made in
teresting and varied enough to be
suitable for a delectable supper,
lunch or even brunch dish.
*Ham and Egg Loaf
(Serves 6)
12 slices whole wheat bread
1 cup ground, cooked ham
1 teaspoon grated onion
1 can condensed mushroom
soup
4 hard-cooked eggs
% teaspoon celery salt
% cup milk
2 tablespoons melted butter
Chop two of the hard-cooked eggs;
mix with ham, seasonings, % cup
milk and half of the soup, undiluted.
Trim crusts from bread; place 3
slices close together on baking
sheet; spread with ham mixture;
top with three bread slices. Repeat
until there are
three layers of
M tig ham mixture and
y four layers of
K bread. Brush top
y—j- slices with half
of the butter;
bake in a mod
erately hot (375*
F.) oven until
lightly browned.
Blend together remaining milk, but
ter and soup; heat. Add remaining
eggs, sliced. Serve loaf, sliced, with
sauce.
A GOOD POT of coffee makes the
perfect accompaniment for any ham
and egg meal. Use % cup (a meas
uring cup) of cold water and two
level measuring tablespoons of cof
fee for each cup to be served.
* • •
DEVILED EGGS need not be con
fined to picnics, as they make a
delicious supper dish when mush
rooms are added to the yolk mix
ture, and tomatoes and cheese made
into a sauce:
Deviled Eggs, Tomato Sauce
(Serves 2-4)
4 hard-cooked eggs
94 cup chopped mushrooms
1 tablespoon minced parsley
1 tablespoon butter
t tablespoons chili sauce
Salt and pepper
94 cup cooked or canned to
matoes
2 tablespoons grated cheese
Cut eggs into halves; remove
yolks and mash. Saute mushrooms
LYNN SAYS:
Try these New Ways
With your Meals
Ever try deep-fat fried sweet
potatoes? They’re interesting, and
good, too. Peel and cut uncooked
potatoes in strips; soak in cold
water. Drain and dry, then plunge
into hot deep fat for 3 to 5 minutes.
Good with pork chops!
If meat balls are a mainstay of
many a menu, vary them for great
er interest. A bit of sausage meat
with the ground beef and a dash of
nutmeg do wonders for meat balls.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
♦Ham and Egg Loaf
Tossed Green Salad
Olives and Pickles
Canned Peaches Cookies
Coffee, Milk
♦Recipe Given
and parsley in butter until tender
and combine with egg yolks, chili
sauce, salt and pepper. Refill
whites.- Place in buttered baking
dish and add tomatoes; sprinkle
with cheese. Bake in a moderate
(350°F.) oven until heated through.
• • •
Ham and Egg Souffles
(Serves 6)
5 eggs, separated
2 tablespoons butter, melted
' 1 cup milk
Salt and pepper
1 cup cooked diced ham or
pork
Beat egg yolks well, then add
butter, milk, salt, pepper and ham
or pork. Beat thoroughly. Fold in
well-beaten egg whites. Pour into
custard cups and place in a pan of
hot water. Bake in a moderate
(350° F.) oven until firm, about 25
to 30 minutes.
• • •
CORN MADE
INTO a custard
with a crisp top
ping of buttered
cracker crumbs
can be a tempt
ing supper. If a
more nourishing
meal is desired,
serve the cus
tard with bro'iltd
slices of Canadi
an bacon or ba
con strips.
Southern Corn Custard
(Serves 6)
3 eggs
2 cups canned corn
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon pepper
94 teaspoon sugar
Cracker crumbs
Butter
Beat eggs thoroughly. Combine
with corn, melted butter and milk.
Stir well. Add seasoning and sugar.
Pour into a buttered casserole and
sprinkle with cracker crumbs, dot
with butter and bake in a moderate
(350*F.) oven for 40 minutes or un
til custard is firm.
• • •
Noodle Oyster Loaf.
(Serves 4)
94 pound noodles
94 cup milk
94 teaspoon salt
3 eggs, beaten
94 pint oysters
4 hard-cooked eggs
2 cups white sauce
Parsley
Paprika
Cook noodles in boiling, salted
water until tender. Drain. Combine
with milk, salt, eggs, cleaned oys
ters and mix thoroughly. Pour into
a greased loaf pan dusted with
cracker crumbs or flour. Set this
pan in a larger pan with hot water;
bake in a moderate (350 J F.) oven,
45 minutes. Unmold on a platter
and slice. On each slice place a
hard-cooked egg cut in halves,
lengthwise, then cover with hot
white sauce and garnish with pars
ley and paprika.
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Chicken livers sauteed gently In
butter can make an excellent main
dish for a supper. Serve over a bed
of hot, fluffy rice with a sauce made
by heating a can of condensed chick
en soup in the drippings from the
livers mixed with % cup sliced,
stuffed olives.
Smothered onions do wonderfully
well with hamburgers, frankfurters
or leftover roast beef. Slice the on
ions thinly and cook in drippings in
a heavy skillet, until light brown.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and
serve.
Asbestos Shingle Siding
QUESTION: I would like to have
some information regarding as
bestos or cement shingles. Do you
think Xhey make a good siding for
a house? How long do they last
and can they be painted? Could
they be put on over shingle weath
erboard? Do you know of a better
way to tighten and protect the out
side of a house?
♦
ANSWER: Good asbestos
shingle siding is considered a very
fine finish for a house and would
improve its appearance greatly,
besides providing some degree of
extra warmth in winter time, as
it acts as a sort of “overcoat.” The
siding can be painted, for special
paints have been manufactured
for the purpose. You will give good
protection to your house with as
bestos siding. Being a composition
of asbestos and Portland cement
that will not disintegrate, there is
no reason why the shingle should
not last for many years.
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