The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-22


IN the gangsters film about Roger
Touhy and his gang the producers
lest 1 few good tricks which APP
aafnetly the govt agents didn't tell
thena about@after Touhy and his
mob we're re-catpured Frlxainple
~sWhen the FBI vent into the
eDoms OF two Of the gRng--they
didn't notice a match stuck at the
TOP Of the door To let the gang
know II anyone entered during their
absence. One mobster had started
opening the door when he realized
the planted match was gone i
80 he started firing his revolver
The agent came out shooting
too, and two Of Touhy's pals went
TO heaven.
Then there's the episode In the
butcher shop A uniformed
chauffeur turns out to be one of
the Touhy gangsters. He went to
purchase meat In the neighborhood
for Touhy land the others) who
didn't risk coming out Of the house
!. The butcher shop, however, was
stated by G-Men After sig
nal from one butcher q bike-rider
tailed the chauffeur to the scene
where Touhy was hiding But
the confederate was not disguised
IS q chauffeur in the actual kidnap
-. The movie people apparently
didn't want to offend the devout by
sticking to the facts The dis
guise worn by the gangster in the
meat shop was that of priest.
The average newspaper reader,
recalling Touhy's mob, will think
the snatched man is the rich Jake
the Barber, victim of that gang
But in the film the producers
purposely switched things to give
the story more pep o.. Jake the
BARRIERS real tortures cannot be
screened or even written about-so
vile we're they So for the screen
the authors and cirecter borrowed
several interesting items from the
kidnappingS of wealthy youth
named Rosenthal lin New York;
and the Urschel snatch In the West
All the kidnappers are now
rusting and rotting in prison for
life.
The most frightful moment in Dr.
rector j. Edgar Hoover's entire life
happened that terrible s In the
nforning-when the night was still
black Hoover and some Of the
agents attacked the Touhy mob
from the rear Of the biulding-other
FBI men covered the front Mr..
Hoover, revolver In paw. climbed
over the back fence and tread soft
" to the back door, where he let
out the most piercing shrek ever
heard anywhere in the whole world
n seems that q poor, little, In
offensive, sleeping black cat was
stepped on by the most famed Of
all 0-Men, and let out one screech,
which the startled Oman tried to
olit-holler.
FBI agents the other day were in
vestigating o theft Of govt-owned
cigarattes destined for overseas ship
naent The foreman, who had
denied any knowledge of the theft,
produced a package Of cigarettes
bearing give-away govt label =.
The agent, who had mooched
cigarette with a definite purpose,
forthwith arrested the foreman, who
Is charged with the crime.
One Of the problems confronting
the FBI these days is the apprehen-
sion Of individuals obtaining money
fraudulently under the Servicemens
Dependents Allowance Act. Sixty
nine convictions have resulted dur
ing the first ten months Of the 1914
fiscal year. An oddly in the FBI's
files on this subject has to do with
. Louisville. KY, woman who, when
questioned by FBI agents, offered
TO return fourteen $50 checks she
got Illegally, but hadn't spent. She
said she had kept all the checks
except one, which the soldier him
self cashed, and that she was most
willing TO return them to the Gov
eminent.
The alertness of Omen was DEM
oFstrated again the other day in
Los Angeles. An agent spied a man
on the street whom he recognized
as q fugitive-a wanted notice had
been issued few days before. Al
though the suspect produced phony
selective service cards, the Oman
was persistent and took his finger
prints, whereupon the fugitive adj
mitted his identity as Walter Ray
Carroll, wanted in washington
State in connection with $4,000
narcotics robbery.
German prisoners Of war cannot
set away from early teachings Of
Nazism. Near Lake Forest. Mich.
they have developed new propa-
ganda technique by tossing out
candy bars while goilng to work
In trucks. G-Men found a note
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