Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-02-16
WAR ON SLAVERS TO
Be WAGED IN GOTHAM
Startling Developments Which Show
Girls Captured Often and Forced
Into Dens of Iniquity.
POSSIBLE FOR MOST ANY
GIRL TO BE CAPTURED
Note From One Being Held as Slave
in One House Brings Help and
She Is Restored to Parents
BY CARLTON TEN EYoK.
(Written for the United Press

New York, Feb. 16.-Facing the
startling fact that no less than 961
New Workers have disappeared from
the face Of the earth in three months,
397 of them being girls and women
and that only 1874 Of them have been
found by the police, the head of the
Police Department has ordered the
guardians of the greater city to divert
their attention for a time from the
gangsters and gunmen to the cadets
and white slavers,
With eight young girls of good fam
lily on the missing list at one time,
the police awoke to the undeniaole
fact that white slavery with all its
unbelievable horrors is real institu.
tio min New York. Discoveries made
recently in the finding of several lost
girls have shown that state of affairs
exists in the heart of New York where
by young girls can be snatched bodily
from their homes, almost under the
eyes of their families and sold into
bondage that is worse than death.
Ordered to Club Them.
The police, therefore have under
taken campaign Of vigorous rough
handling against the white slavers,
similar to the war they recently waged
against the gangsters of the East Side.
The gunner crusade was in measure
successful. 1t is believed that SINH
lar move against the enemies Of women
will have equal success. Instead of
arresting gunmen in a dignified man.
ner and giving them the benefit of
long drawn out arraignments and
trials, allowing them to swagger in
court and receive the homage of their
satellites while in the Tombs, the po-
lice were ordered to use their clubs on
gangsters wherever found. The uni
formed men and detectives were auth
orized to beat the gunmen on the
slightest provocation.
In short time several of the worst
of the East Side rowdies were sent tc
hospitals instead Of police stations anC
one policeman was highly commended
for killing thug who tried to escape
The fellow had struck down an ole
Junk dealer who refused to give hin
money for whiskey, and when he at
tempted to escape in the maze of Eas
Side tenement area.ways, as was al
ways permissible in "the good ole
days. the policeman shot him dead
That sort of thing had a wholesome
effect on the gangsters. Police Com
missioner Mckay hopes it will worl
out in similar fashion in the case o
the white slavers. The notorious gun
men of New York s East Side are no
bad men in the true sense Of the WORD
They are physical towards. They car
not stand pain and punishment. The
are anaemic, shallow chested, drug e1
hausted youths who can ride aroun
in high-powered automobiles and shoe
their rivals in the back with automati
pistols. But they cannot fight. Phys
cal violence makes them cry like b'
bies. The cadets are of the same cal
bre. That is why the police heads thin
that mailed.fist crusade will elimii
ate them from New York.
Kidnapped and Beaten.
Recently a passer-by on one Of Il
apparently respectable streets no IL
upper west side saw piece Of fold'
paper flutter down at his feet. 1t WI
note from a l6.year.old girl WI
wrote that she was being held as
white slave. The man called a polio
man and they invaded the flat fro
which the note was thrown. Tn
found there two men and a woman.
rear room, locked up without eliot
ing was the girl. She said she h