NATIONAL SCOURGE
‘ V • r*. /* ji ■/ y \ GANGSTERS IN UNITED STATES.
HUGE COST TO THE PEOPLE;'
(United; Press Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
r m WASHINGTON; August 22. Supporting gangsters iu a .style to whichotbey .arfe’ accustomed costs every man, woman and child in the United States i :thirty-five . pounds sterling annually;; [declared Major Brown, the Chief :of Police, in a nation-wide broadcast, in which 1 he .estimated'the total cost of crime at thirteen billion dollars. He said'that [lawlessness in America
was not a wave. Its growth had been a \<, slow growth) which;‘Had taken a long -n frime to reach the present alarming size. Citing the vast profits of racketeers, Major Brbwli that in
good years A 1 Capone had an annua] income of forty riiillion sterling), • v**'"! Major Brown' defended the hulk of the American - police as- being üble; efficient and willing to fight crime, if they were backed % a strong public opinion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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150NATIONAL SCOURGE Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1933, Page 5
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