Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-17
City, Stirred by GangIand
Massacre, Awaits Exten-
Sive Crime Cleanup.
SEARCH FOR MURDERERS
FAILS AS NET SPREADS
Paper Attributes Staying of Seven
to Canadians Fight for Liquor
Racket Control.
ny the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 16.--As a di-
rect result of the st. Valentines day
massacre of seven gangsters. Chicago
tonight was on the verge of what prom
ised to be the greatest dry cleaning and
general crime purging since prohibition
became a law 10 years ago.
The concerted drive by Federal, State
and city officials against crime, vice,
Rambling-and particularly liquor-al-
most overshadowed the manhunt for
the murderers of the seven Moran
gangsters who were executed in their
headquarters last Thursday.
Spurred on by general criticism and
the States attorneys admonition to the
police to clamp on the lid or go to
Jail" Commissioner of Police William
F. Russell today told his captains and
deputies booze selling and booze run
ming must be wiped out"
BIames Prohibition for SIayingx.
He blamed prohibition and booze"
for the wholesale slayings and ordered
$500 policemen that he said had been
battling crime. vice and gambling to be
thrown into the fight to make Chicago
dry-something the police heretofore
have considered duty of Federal au-
thorities.
Meanwhile the search for the four or
five men who virtually eliminated the
Moran gang with their machine guns
extended along two lines-neither of
which had been productive of results.
The police were searching here and else
where for three members of the purple
gang" of Detroit, identified from photo
graphs by rooming house owners across
the street from the Moran headquarters
as having rented rooms there shortly
before the killings.
It was the police theory that those
sought spied on the Moran gang, await
Ing an auspicious moment TO order out
the firing squad. Such tactics are not
new in gang warfare here. Half a
dozen slayings having been traced TO
such planning.
The other line of inquiry lay in trac-
ing trucks found In the garage where
the Moran gang was killed and IN an
effort to trace old police squad cars fol-
lowing reports that such a car was
used by the killers to escape.
Dry Administrator Is Rebuked.
A theory expressed yesterday by Mai
p. .. Silloway, assistant prohibition
administrator, that real policemen and
not gangsters wearing police uniforms
were the killers remained without sub
sanitation today Mai Silloway left
his ONCE announcing he expected to
meet some one who would help verify
his theory but returned later stating
that he had been unable to make con-
nections." His theorizing drew re-
buke from Prohibition Commissioner
Doran in Washington.
John A. Swanson, State attorney, at
conference with Commissioner Russell,
blamed the police for conditions which
resulted in the murders and said that
such crimes would not occur unless
there was a ready market for liquor.
Commissioner RuSSell's orders we're
issued Immediately after the conference
and he admonished his men to stop
selling and trafic in liquor and ordered
any police officer knowing OF any con-
nection with the killing Of any police
men to report the matter to him.
Police Reorganization Asked.
Police also were under fire from
other quarters. Alderman John Massen
said he expected to present TO the city
council next week bill providing for
reorgariZing of the Police Department
under non-political civilian board OF
control He said the city's reputation
had been damaged beyond repair by the
killings which would not have occurred
II the Police Department had been or
eanized efficiently.
The Association of Commerce took a
hand in the matter by demanding q
grand jury investigation of the tmputa
tions cast on the police department as
3 result of the slayings with view to
clearing the department or rtdding II
of those who might be found guilty.
The bodies Of the victims of the gang
slaughter have been claimed by relatives
Funeral services will be held Monday
For Peter and Frank Gusenberg, prtn-
cipal lieutenants of George Bugs
Moran, expensive caskets have been
purchased with indications they would
be buried with some of the lavish dis
play and pomp affected by relatives oi
slain sangsters a few years ago. For
the other five, however, simple services
were planned.
Ten Are Taken in Raid.
Nine men and a woman were arrested
in a raid this afternoon in North Side
garage suspected to be a sub-head-
quarters of the Moran outfit. Detective
Capt William Shoemaker led the
raiders, arriving just as a truckload OF
whisky was moving out. In vault
we're found other cases Of whisky, all
of 1t believed TO be Of Canadian origin
shipped from Detroit.
The prisoners were taken to the
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