GANG WARFARE
PUBLIC AROUSED
A POLITICAL ISSUE
VANCOUVER, 27th September. The rising tide ■ of- public' anger ja the United States against the operations of criminal gangs, which has....been Quickened .by two recent fights between rival gangs, haa found its , way into national! politics. ':■- i^.'.-f :>^ ?'■,:■■■'(■'•• .. It may even be made: an issue: for the next election for the United States Presidency. Mr. Franklin, Eoosev.elt, son of the .who is fiovr ernor- -of New Yorkj- and a candidate ■" for the Democratic-nomination for the. Presidency, delivered .a long speech at Kent (Connecticut), in which hem* augurated agnation-wide drive against all gangsters. _, v ;_ ■■"•''• The war on the gangs in New xorfc itself has begun in earnest. Specialg, measures are being taken to deal. wita the machine-gun gangs. = The ajd o£ electrical science has been invoked, ana a special steel has been manufactured" Eight types of receiving • sets have been tried by police motor-cars, which•criuse about the city and receive orders from a municipal low-wave . station. Steel bullet-proof vests have bee« supplied for sharp-shooting riflemen.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 9
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170GANG WARFARE Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 9
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