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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
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Crime in America
By ESTES KEFAUVER
United States Senator
Twelve of a Series
Detroit: Where Underworld And
Business World Merge
An alarming aspect in the pattern of crime in America is that
certain manufacturers have deliberately allied themselves with
racketeers as a means of controlling labor relationships.
In Detroit, the Senate Crime Committee turned up four in
stances in which large industrial concerns awarded lucrative con
tracts to gangsters or men who had underworld connections.
Typical was the link between Santo (Sam) Perrone and the
Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. The bespectacled, balding Perrone
once served a six-year sentence for violating the prohibition laws,
and both he and his brother, Caspar, had been arrested for ques
tioning on murder charges, though later released. Ironically, San
to had a license to carry a re
volver at the time we questioned
him. It was promptly revoked by
Detroit authorities.
Perrone barely can read and
write English. He went to work
more than 40 years ago as a core
maker for the stove works, per
haps the largest non-union plant in
the area. Perrone insisted he never
even had discussed labor problems
with John A. Fry, company presi
dent, and Mr. Fry testified he nev
er had heard of any labor difficulty
or any physical violence at the
plant.
Around 1934, however, there was
a serious strike when a union made
a strenuous effort to organize the
stove works. Twelve years later.
Fry told a grand jury investigating
labor rackets that during the dis
pute *T talked with some of the
fellows in the plant, including the
Perrones, and I wanted to know
whether or not we could get some
help to come in, and they said they
thought they could.
“There was some fights outside
the gate on the part of the pick
ets attacking the men when they
came in to lunch. I think after the
first day we had 75 or 80 police
men around the plant.”
Shortly after this violent strike,
Santo Perrone, the coremaker. Was
given a contract to purchase and
haul away the scrap from the
stove works. Thus, the illiterate
manual laborer acquired an in
come which in recent years has
netted him between $40,000 and
$65,000 a year. He lives in a luxuri
ous mansion, drives a costly car,
and has been able to lend large
sums of money.
The company also took care of
Santo’s brother, Caspar, changing
its coremaking department to a
sub contra ctorship. Using company
materials and the same company-
owned equipment with which he
had worked as an employe, Caspar
became the contractor who supplied
the factory with sand cores.
d • •
Later, Santo and Caspar were
sent to the penitentiary for illegal
ly manufacturing whisky. The com
pany kept Santo’s scrap contract in
effect for him when he was in
prison. Also, while the Perrones
were imprisoned, the United Auto
Workers, CIO, which previously had
been kept out of Detroit-Michigan
Stove, was able to organize one of
the plants. A UAW organizer said,
though, that when Mr. Perrone got
out of jail, “the organization dis
appeared.”
An Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service inspector told us that,
while investigating aliens illegally
in the United States, he learned that
20 such violators were working at
the Detroit-Michigan Stove Co. Cas
par was questioned by the commit
tee about a speed boat which he
owns and operates on the Great
lakes between Michigan and Can
ada, but he denied that he ever
smuggled in any aliens.
The Perrone-Stove Works story
fits neatly with that of a larger
plant, Briggs Manufacturing Co.,
makers of auto bodies. President
Fry of the Stove Works and Presi
dent Dean Robinson of Briggs are
close friends.
For approximately 20 years,
Briggs had contracted with an estab
lished firm, Woodmere Scrap Iron,
for removal of ferrous scrap from
the Briggs plant. In 1945, Santo
Perrone’s son-in-law. Carl Renda.
28, suddenly applied for the con
tract.
The contract was taken away
from Woodmere and awarded to
Renda, despite the facts that he
had no knowledge of the business,
no equipment and not even a tele
phone or office where he could be
called.
Then, Perrorie’s son-in-law turned
around and made a subcontract
with Woodmere, the old contractor,
whereby Woodmere kept right on
doing the work. But Woodmere paid
Renda $2.50 a ton more than he
had paid Briggs for the scrap, giv
ing him an income which has
reached $101,000 a year. As our
report commented: “the inference
is inescapable that what Rendo was
being paid for was the service
(‘muscle’) of his father-in-law, Per
rone.”
oos
Six prominent officials of the
Briggs union were badly beaten by
unknown persons in the year that
followed granting oi the Renda con
tract.
Before going to Detroit, the com
mittee explored in the New York-
New Jersey area the tie-up between
the Ford Motor Co. and the notori
ous gangster, Joseph Dota, alias
Joe Adonis. Adonis is a principal
stockholder of the Automotive Con
veying Co. of New Jersey, which
transports automobiles away from
the Ford plant at Edgewater, N. J.
• so
Because of this, the committee
looked into possible relationships
between Ford’s plants in the De
troit area and other racketeers.
We found that the principal haul
away operator was the E&L Trans
port Co., in which one Anthony
D’Anna, ex-convict and former
sugar supplier to bootleggers, was
a 50 per cent stockholder. D’Anna
drew a $27,000 salary from E&L
but apparently he did nothing to
earn it.
Before acquiring his E&L stock,
D’Anna, through negotiations with
Harry Bennett, labor boss for the
late Henry Ford Sr., had obtained
a 50 per cent share of a profitable
Ford agency in Wyandotte, Mich.
* • •
Bennett, now retired, had, as the
committee noted, “employed vir
tually a private army recruited
from ex-convicts and criminals to
engage in battles against labor
and in other anti-social activties.”
Subpoenaed from his California
ranch to testify, he was a hostile
and difficult witness. When we
asked him about the gang factions
in Detroit, he snapped: “Do you
want me to get my head blown
off?”
Bennett admitted that, although
he was a key man in one of the
largest plants in the world, he kept
no files, records or memoranda of
any kind.
4 Tn fairness to Ford,” our re
port observed that the company
“is taking vigorous steps to disas
sociate itself from these racketeer-
held contracts.” It now is attempt
ing to terminate by some v legal
means its deal with Adonis.
Also in Detroit, the committee
cleared up the mystery of how
Cleveland gamblers acquired an
important block of stock in a vital
industry, the Detroit Steel Corp.
Max J. Zivian, president of Detroit
Steel, told us that in 1944 Detroit
Steel merged with Reliance Steel
Corp. of Cleveland.
Zivian undertook to purchase the
Reliance president's stock for ap
proximately $580,000. He said he
was in Cleveland when gamble^-
businessman Morris Dalitz, whom
he had known slightly, “bumped in
to me in the street.” Zivian said
he told him that he was attempting
to close a big deal but was short
$100,000. Dalitz, without even look
ing at a balance sheet, arranged
a bank loan for the necessary
money. So the Cleveland syndicate
acquired 10,000 shares of Detroit
Steel stock.
Zivian subsequently became
friendly with the Cleveland gam
bler and once took a trip on Dal
itz’ yacht.
Next week: Philadelphia: Police
tactics In the City of Brotherly
Love.
Condensed from the book, “Crime In
America,” by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951.
Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Dist. General
Features Corp.—WNU.
Sports Stars Like Biking
Sports stars have long known the
leg-strengthening benefits of bi
cycling. Prominent athletes pictured
riding bikes recently include Sugar
Ray Robinson, middleweight boxing
champ; Dick Kazmaier, Princeton’s
grid wizard; Roy Campanella,
Brooklyn’s famed catcher; Luke
Easter, Cleveland’s slugging first
baseman; and Stewart Iglehart,
America’s high-goal polo player,
who thinks nothing of two-wheeling
ten miles a day.
INTERNAL REVENUE PROBE
House Committee Carries On Investigation
WASHINGTON—House investiga
tors are looking into charges of al
leged unethical practices in the De
troit Internal Revenue office and
Into the handling of tax-fraud cases
originating in North Carolina. Scan
dals have hit other offices.
Tips relayed to the House ways-
and-means chairman of investiga
tion committee Senator Moody
caused a special agent to be sent
to Detroit.
Adrien D e w i n d, subcommittee
counsel, announced that the Senior
Internal Revenue agent at Charles
ton had been under questioning in
Washington.
Moody said that rm terials for the
investigations was gathered by his
committee during investigations of
gray markets in critical material#
some weeks ago.
New Nome
Truth or Consequences
HOT SPRINGS. N. M.—When
the name of a community is
changed, the people most con
cerned—next to the inhabitants
and post office—are the map
makers. Latest cause for con
cern is the town of Hot Springs,
N. M., which has been changed
to Truth or Consequences.
Rand McNally's new “Stand
ard World Atlas” carries the
new name in parenthesis after
Hot Springs in its road map, and
a “double entry” in its 1951
Commercial Atlas shows Hot
Springs as a post office name
and Truth or Consequences as
the corporate name.
Maryland Community
Pays Off Last Note
Of Civil War Ransom
FREDERICK, Md. — Historic old
Frederick paid off the last of $200,-
000 ransom demanded by an in
vading Confederate army recently
and the Civil War officially came to
an end.
On July 9, 1864, Gen. Jubal Early
on the way south after the defeat at
Gettysburg, and under orders to
pick up what supplies and cash he
could from the Maryland country
side, arrived at Frederick. The
day before he had threatened
Hagerstown and received $20,000
ransom to pass through and not
molest the town.
At Frederick he demanded of
the town 500 barrels of flour, 6,000
pounds of sugar, 3,000 pounds of
coffee, 3,000 pounds of salt and
20,000 pounds of bacon.
While his mission was in the
town he heard that the citizens
were hiding what stores they could
from him and he dispatched an
other note, harsher in tone, demand
ing $200,000 in cash or supplies, or
the city would be sacked.
The town’s banks gathered up
the ransom money in cash and car
ried it in baskets from their vaults
to the city hall where it Vvas turned
over to the Confederates.
The final payment of the ransom
was made by the town and carried
back to the banks in a basket just
last month.
For years the community has
tried to get the federal government
to assume financial responsibility
for the wartime holdup. Three
times the government has refused.
And during the years of haggling,
the interest piled up to an estimated
$600,000—three times the amount of
the principal.
Gen. Early discovered a vast
quantity of federal stores within
the town after the ransom was paid,
but he would not let his troops
touch them because he had given
his word that the town would not
be bothered after the money was
paid.
Cattle Auction Markets
Grown in the Southwest
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CLOVIS, N. M.—Because of in
creasing Pacific Coast demands for
beef, a new type of stock market
has developed in eastern New
Mexico and west Texas which are
handling almost ps many cattle as
such markets as Kansas City and
Denver.
The markets are auction rings
through which beef cattle pass to
the feeding lots of California to be
fattened to prime beef for the
coast.
In the past six years one of the
biggest markets has developed at
Clovis, where two rings this year
will handle half a million cattle.
That adds up to $50,000,000 and the
towns biggest single business. Sim
ilar markets have developed at
Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas.
Together these three auction cen
ters handle almost as many cattle
as Kansas City, where receipts
last year were 1,650,701 cattle and
calves, and Denver, where receipts
were 978,716.
The auctions, however, are not
rivals of the big markets. They are
distribution points from which the
range cattle come and are sent on
to farms and feed lots.
The region formerly marketed
its beef in Kansas City, but the de
mand for beef to supply Pacific
Coast needs upped the price for
cattle shipped west. The auction
sales rings were able to do the
job because it was cheaper to ship
from these regional markets than
it was to ship to Kansas City and
back to the Pacific Coast.
The markets are beginning to
handle sheep now with sales
amounting to about 3,000 a week.
Most Wrong Side Wrecks
Occur on Rural Highways
CHICAGO—Most of the “wrong
side of the road” accidents, occur
on rural highways, an (American)
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty com
pany survey revealed.
The survey, first comprehensive
study of its kind, shows that 7,000
lives were lost in 1950 because of
this practice, which has been
branded the number two highway
menace, second only to excessive
speeding.
H. G. Kemper, president of Lum
bermens, in commenting on the sur
vey, said:
.“Our analysis shows that 90 per
cent of the ’wrong side’ accidents
occurred on rural roads and high
ways. This figure should serve as a
warning to farmers.
Home-Baked Rolls,
Coffee Cakes Add
Special Menu Interest
HOW LONG IS IT since you’ve
made hot rolls or coffee cake? It’s
a great satisfaction to make good
ones, and there are many easy
ways to do it.
»\ A, Hot roll mix
7 insures satisfac-
' — ^ tory results for
those who do not
have the time to
zflix their own
dough. It may
even give them
courage to try a yeast dough from
the very beginning, when they real
ize the pleasures of working with
yeast-made products.
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HERE ARE RECIPES for both
experienced and novice cooks. Try
them on days when the menu needs
an extra nice food or for a special
occasion when you want to stimu
late compliments on your cooking.
Almond Yeast Bona
(Makes 12 S-inch rolls)
H cap roasted, blanched
almonds
$4 cup seedless raisins
% cap diced, preserved citron
1 package hot roll mix
% cop granulated sugar
teaspoon cinnamon
teaspoon nutmeg
1 egg
Few drops almond extract
Candied cherries
Halved, blanched almonds
Chop almonds. Rinse and drain
raisins. Add citron, roll mix, sugar,
spice and almonds, and mix well
Add liquid to yeast as directed on
package, scanting liquid by 2 table
spoons. Beat egg yolk lightly and
mix into yeast mixture with flavor
ing. Stir into dry mixture, blend
ing thoroughly. Shape into 12 round
buns and place on greased baking
sheet. Allow to stand in warm place
until doubled in bulk, about 1 to
hours. Brush tops with egg white
beaten until foamy. Top each with
a cherry half and several almond
halves. Bake in moderately hot
oven (375°F.) about 25 minutes.
* • •
Raisin Orange Rolls
(Makes 15 roUs)
1 cap seedless raisins
K cap unstrained orange juice
H cop granulated sugar
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
1 package hot roil mix
Rinse raisins and drain thorough
ly. Combine orange juice and sugar
and boil 10 minutes or until thick
ened. Remove from heat and stir
in butter, rind and raisins. Cool.
Prepare hot roll mix as directed on
package. Turn dough out onto
floured board and roll into rec
tangle about 12x18 inches. Spread
raisin-orange mixture over dough.
Roll lengthwise as for jelly roll.
Cut into 1 inch slices with scissors.
Place out side down in greased pan
(about 7x15 inches). Cover and
let rise in warm place until doubled
in bulk about 1 hour and 15 min
utes. Bake in moderately hot oven
(375®F.) 30 io 40 minutes. Serve
hot.
* * *
•Fruit-Nut Bread
2 packages compressed sr
fast granular yeast
H enp warm water
94 enp milk
% cap sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons soft shortening
94 cup chopped nnts
2 cups sifted flour
Add yeast to warm water and let
stand. Scald milk and pour into a
large bowl with sugar and salt.
Blend together and cool to luke
Almonds, raisins, citron and
spicqp added to a packaged
roll mix will give yon these
Almond Yeast Buns with k very
superior flavor. They’re easy
to prepare tor special occasions
and will provide many compli
ments on yonr culinary skill.
LYNN SAYS:
Yon Should Know These Facts
When Baking with Yeast
Milk has to be scalded In ma&mg
bread, rolls and coffee cake with
yeast so that the action of the en
zymes in milk will not interfere
with die activity of yeast
If you’re going to refrigerate
dough for rolls, place in a deep
bowl Cover first with waxed paper
and then a damp cloth. Doughs
made with milk should not be kept
fer more than three days.
An outstanding treat at any
breakfast, luncheon, dinner or
afternoon tea are Raisin Orange
Rolls. They'll be phunp and
fluffy w i t h raisins, and fra
grant and flavorfnl because of
the sugar, orange juice and
batter mixtare wrapped in them
before baking.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU
Stuffed Breast of Veal
Corn Pudding Fried Tomatoes
Green Bean Salad
•Fruit-Nut Bread - Butter
•Sliced Oranges Nut Cookies
Beverage
•Recipe Given
warm. Stir yeast
mixture well and
pour into bowL
Add shortening,
chopped nuts,
fruits and flour;
mix to blend
w e 1L Scrape
down batter from sides of bowl.
Cover and let rise in warm place
30 to 45 minutes or until doubled.
Stir down. Spoon into four No. 2
greased tin cans filling 94 full, or
into one bread pan, 5x9x3 inches.
Cover and let rise until dough is
within 1 inch of top of cans. Bake
30 to 40 minutes in quick, moderate
oven (375°F.). Remove from cans
or pan and cool on racks. Brush
tops with confectioners’ sugar frost
ing (1 cup confectioners’ sugar mix
ed with 2 to 3 tablespoons warm
milk) allowing icing to dribble down
the sides.
* * *
Pennsylvania Dutch Coffe Cake
1 package compressed or fast
granular yeast
94 enp warm water
94 enp milk
94 cap sugar
94 epp soft shortening
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg, unbeaten
94 enp seedless raisins
94- cup finely chopped citron
394 to 394 cups floor, sifted
Add yeast to warm water and le»
stand. Scald milk and pour into
bowl with sugar, soft shortening
and salt; blend together and cool
to lukewarm. Stir yeast mixture
well and pom into bowl with milk
mixture. Add. egg, seedless raisins,
chopped citron and enough of the
flour to make a soft dough. Turn
out onto lightly floured board and
knead until smooth. Place in
greased bowl, turning once. Cover
bowl with damp cloth and let rise<
in warm place 194 to 2 hours or
until impression remains when fin
ger is pressed deep into side of
dough. Punch
down dough
Place in lightly
greased ob
long pan, 9x13x2
inches or in two
8-inch square
pans. Pat dough
evenly into pans.
Let rise in warm
place about 30 minutes, covered.
While cakes are rising, mix togeth
er 1 cup brown sugar packed in
cup, 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Measure
out 194 cups thick sour cream. After
coffee cake has risen, make little
dents in the top with fingers. Pour
sour cream on top and spread even
ly. Sprinkle with the sugar-cinna
mon mixture. Bake 35 to 45 minutes
In quick-moderate oven (375°F.).
Topping will puff up while baking.
Cinnamon Rolls
1 package hot roll mix
6 tablespoons melted batter
94 cap brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
94 cup chopped walnuts
Make dough according to direc
tions on package. On well-floured
board pat dough into rectangle about
12 x 18 inches. Brush with butter,
sprinkle with brown sugar, cinna
mon and chopped nuts. Roll as for
jelly roll, cut in 12 slices. Put slices,
cut side down, on greased baking
sheet about 1-inch apart. Let rise
in warm place until double in bulk.
Bake in moderate oven (350®F.) 20
minutes. Glaze rolls if desired.
Eggs are not always beaten sep
arately before adding to yeast bat
ters because the final beating after
mixing, 100 strokes, blends it per
fectly into the batter.
When you’re beating yeast dough,
beat “from the shoulder.” This not
only exercises the dough more easi
ly, but it’s also less tiring.
A good way to handle dough which
is rising is to place in a closed cup
board alongside a bowl of warm
water. This gives the desired high
temperature and also keepa the
dough away from a draft.
Wall Racks Have
Number of Uses
BY DR. KENNETH J. FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE: Exodus 32; Numbers
11-14.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Deuteron
omy 11:13-21.
There Is a Tide
Lesson for December 2, 1951
Dr. Foreman
"Tbur* is s tide in tbt affairs of
men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads
on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their
life
ts bound *in shallows and in
miseries!*
OO Shakespeare said, aud he was
^ at least half right Opportunity
sometimes knocks twice; but don’t
count on it
Hie Bible lesson for the week is a
failure-story, not a success-story. It
Is the story of some
persons who con
tracted the grass
hopper complex, a
mental disease that
still attacks people
today. The story is
from the wild days
when the Israelites,
now two years out
from Egypt, were
first knocking at the
doors of the Prom
ised Land.
The Israelites were land-hungry,
but the only land they wanted was
what we now call Palestine and it
was not theirs for the asking. They
would have to fight for it, every
foot of it. They all knew this,
Moses knew it There was no going
back to Egypt and slavery. Nobody
wanted to stay in the desert The
obvious thing was to go ahead into
Palestine^ But there were two ques
tions filling the people’s minds: (1)
What kind of country is it really?
and (2) can we fight our way into
it?
* • • . .. .
Investigating Committee
S O/ a committee of investigation
was formed, of one man from
each, of the twelve tribes,—grown
men, trusted leaders, by no means
“boy scouts.”
Don’t think of these men as
sneaking through Palestine from
bush to bush, peeping out Indian
fashion to see what they could see.
They walked into Palestine, not un
observed but unmolested. They
spoke Egyptian, of course, and could
easily pass as Egyptian traveling
salesmen. They spent around six
weeks in that country, visiting the
cities, no doubt talking with the
people.
In late summer they went
back to the encampment on the
edge of the desert, \ carrying
•with them some of the fruits of
the land. (Incidentally, those
pictures showing bunches of
grapes six feet long are a funny
misunderstanding. Palestine has
good grapes, but not quite that
good! They carried the grapes
on poles because that was the
best way to keep them from be
ing crashed.)
At the big mass-meeting at the
desert camp, the twelve made their
report. On the facts, they were all
unanimous. It was a wonderful
country, “flowing with milk and
honey,” a great country for cattle
and bees. Palestine did look mar
velous to their desert-burned eyes.
But on question number two there
was a serious division: Can we fight
our way in? Yes, said the minority
of two. No, said the majority of ten.
* o •
Grasshopper Complex
*pHE majority put their reasons in
a single revealing sentence: We
were as grasshoppers in their sight,
they said, and so we were in our
sight.
Nowadays we call this state of
mind the “inferiority complex’’; our
name is a new one for an old trou
ble. Think of yourself as a grass
hopper, and grasshopper is what
you shall be. Take yourself at other
people’s lowest estimate, and that
is all you will be worth.
The trouble with the grasshop
per complex is that it is catch
ing. The majority report was
wrong, as majority reports so
often are. Bat the people be
lieved them rather than the
conrageons pair who stood np to
declare boldly. We can do it,
with the help of God.
Well, what did God do about it?
That is perhaps the saddest part
of the story. He did nothing about
it. He let the people impose their
own sentence. Grasshoppers? Very
well, so be it. Grasshoppers die,
they never amount to anything, no
one bothers to kill them, they just
die. God was believed to strike
men dead in anger, or command the
earth to open and swallow up the
wicked, or hurl lightning from the
skies on his enemies. But he wasted
no miracles on these self-elected
grasshoppers. He only let them die.
Ten, twenty, forty years . , . just
drifting about in the wilderness, till
they all died, and a new generation
took their places.
Opportunity did not knock twice.
There was a tide in those men’s
lives.
(Copyright 1961 hy the Dlrisloa of
Chrlstloa Edaeatloa, Natloaal CoaasU
of the Charohes of Christ fa th* United
States of Aaaerlea. Released hy WNU
Fsatarss.)
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