Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-07-05

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Gle in on the million-dollar racket
and take over.
The reign of the Jones brothers,
Negro multi-millionnaire policy
kings, and that other potentate Of
the numbers racket, Eiey Kelly
will end within the next few weeks
the well-informed in policy circles
declared.
Kelly, whose brother, Walter
also a policy racketeer, was shot
gunned to death a year ago last
January, has been threatened with
a similar fate and has gone into
hiding, it was reported. His
Clearing House numbers business
and his Lucky Strike and Grey
hound policy wheels, with head
quarters at los East 51st street,
are still operating under his lieu
tenants.
Reason for Reckoning
The day of reckoning, supposed
to be at hand for the Jones broth
ers, Ed, George and MicKissick,
impends because they are reputed
to have supplied the federal gov
eminent with information which
played an important part in bring
ing about the indictment of VIII
liam R. ("Billy") SkidmOre, Chica-
COS gambling car and "fxer."
Skidmore, who also conducts a
scrap iron business, is accused Of
sidestepping payment of income
taxes in the sum of 1922, 900.
Kelly, on the other hand, has never
testified before a federal grand
jury. In what manner he infracted
the rules of the game and must
now meet the Capone mob threat,
or go under, has not been dis
closed.
Wynn McCullOch, Negro policy
wheel operator and saloonkeeper,
who is reported to have furnished
the government with evidence re-
garding what he and others forked
up week in and week out for pro-
tection-and named who received
this money-was the first to be
handed a knockout blow. Nc
Culloch's two wheels, known as the
Cremo and the Prince Albert
housed in a building facing an
alley off Cottage Grove avenue, in
the 4th ward, closed after McCul-
loch was notified to put up the
shutters, cor else"
Negro Citizens Heard From
Meanwhile, as typewriter mes.
sages were being distributed, pre-
dieting that murder would be re-
sorted to and that the policy oper'
ators "must have the o. K. from
the scrap yard" leading group Of
Negro citizens was heard from.
Miss Kathryn Johnson, president
of the John R. Lynch Model Com
munity Council, declared today
that as a result of complaints made
to Police Commissioner Altman by
a committee representing her or
ganization, two out of go known
policy joints in the area bounded
by 43rd street, 47th street, South
Park Way and Michigan avenue
were closed by the police.
Commissioner Altman promised
us in no uncertain terms that al
these places would be closed" she
continued. There must be some
silent political influence at work
that keeps them open over the en-
phatic orders of the city's chief OF
police. We were told that the
places pay for protection"
Others on the List
Besides the Jones brothers, other
policy barons reported to be on the
mob's direct-action list are Charles
Farrell, who runs the Northshore,
Black Gold and Goldshore wheels,
and Earl White and Ruben Black,
operators of the Times Square,
Monte Carlo and Green Dragon.
Julian Black, one Of the man.
ayers of Champion Joe Louis, is
also on the list, informants relate
He owns the East and West and
North and South Wheels. Some
of the others are Butler Coleman
operating Gold and Silver, and Colo
Standard; James Knight, whose
wheels, the Wisconsin, the lows
and the Royal Palm, do a big bust,
ness, and Edward White, proprietor