Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-29
Chicago Detective Chief Or
ders Arrest of Relatives to
Force Surrender of Accused.
FOUR "PUBLIC ENEMIES"
HELD, e AT LIBERTY
Unions Protest Drive to Purge
Locals of Racketeers, Holding
Legitimate Workers Suffer.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 29.-The next
of kin" of Chicago's public enemies"
today were ordered arrested, to be held
as hostages for the enemies" them
selves.
Detective Chief Norton ordering this
action, told his men to arrest the wives
of the enemies" wherever possible.
Failing in this, the nearest relatives of
the hunted men are to be taken.
Vagrancy warrants have been signed
Tor the public enemies"-the rs most
notorious figures of the city's gang life
and the relatives are to be held until
such time as the enemies surrender or
are found
Four of them already are under ar
rest. One surrendered, another was
found in a police cell on another charge
and two were found in hospitals.
One Of the latter, Terry Druggan of
the erstwhile beer baroncy of Druggan
g. Lake, is at the University Hospital.
His doctors say he will die if he is
moved, but police insist that he be taken
to Bridewell Prison Hospital. under
guard. In addition to the vagrancy
warrant, Federal charge of having
made against him.
The State attorneys fight against
labor racketeers-the men who have
taken control by force of a number of
union treasuries-received a setback
when number of union leaders called
on Col. A. A. Sprague, anti-crime
leader, and protested against the cam
paign. Legitimate unions are being
made the sufferers, the labor men
charged. They asked the removal from
the fight of Assistant States Attorney
Charles j. Mueller.
Police Face Charges.
Meanwhile the Police Department
struggled with It's own problem, which
cropped out last Thursday when men
raiding hotel seized a Police Depart
ment memorandum containing a list of
known hoodlums marked for possible
arrest on vagrancy charges. The MEM
| orandum bore checkmarkS before eight
names, all of them All Capone men and
when the polica copy was located, these
eight names had been omitted. Cues
tioning revealed that the original had
Deen stolen from police files and re-
typed from memory" by secretary.
Chief Norton yesterday completed his
investigation of the affair and made
out list of policemen's names. which
he called transfer list. It went to
Police Commissioner John H. Alcock to-
day for action. Alcock said he would
make criminal charges against the
traitor In his department, as well as
arranging instant dismissal.
Policeman Threatened,
a threat of death came to light yes
terday as gangland's answer to a po-
nceman who has been too active in
the war on crime. The officer. Jack
kratzmeyer, revealed the threat to
Capt. Michael Delaney of the near
North Side district, and, at the same
time, denied reports that he had been
offered a $4,000 bride.
Inc Herald and Examiner insisted
however, that 1t had learned of such
an offer to Policeman Kratzmeyer and
OF the officers refusal. The paper added
that 1t had found the offer was part of
100000 slush fund, exacted by I'M
uerWorld commanders from their mem
berS, to combat the current intensive
campaign against lawleSsness.
Among the gangsters arrested recent-
ly by Kratzmeyer have been Joe Bush
member OF Detroits purple gang, still
suspected OF sharing blame for the mas
sacre OF seven Moran gangsters on st.
valentines day, 1929; Louis Chapman.
ailas Jonn Fogarty, reputedly success
ful "hxer," and a pair of suspected
murderers. Kratzmeyer has seized sew
eral beer trucks in his district and the
evidence has been turned over to Fed
eral authorities. Meanwhile he has
been receiving numerous threats.
The near North Side district is the
scene OF the greatest current warfare
between rival gangs. Formerly DOM
mated by the Moran mob, it has lately
peen invaded by Capone men under
the supervision of Teddy Newberrv.
Harassing relatives of gangsters Is
in line with the Chicago Police Depart
ment's policy of arresting hoodlums and
those affiliated with them on all pos
sible charges. The Detective Bureau
refused to divulge what charges it would
prefer in this new angle of its campaign.