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...sons Fred and Arthur. In little more than a year the Karpis-Barker gang became the nation's most formidable criminal outfit, made nearly $500,000 by robbing banks, kidnapping such folk as St. Paul's Brewer William Hamm and Banker Edward George Bremer. Then police and G-Men began weeding the gang out. "Ma" and Fred Barker and another mobster died un der Federal guns. Six other Barker-Karpis hoodlums and accomplices were put behind bars, seven more were under indictment in St. Paul last week for the Hamm snatching. Only Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell, companion...
Wild indeed ran Director Hoover's G-Men last week. As if timed to induce Congress to change its mind about next year's appropriation, the Bureau put on an intensive blood-&-thunder show which made blacker headlines than any similar period of activity since the big gangster hunt...
...relentlessly followed a tortuous trail to Manhattan, to California, to Florida, back to Manhattan, to the Bahamas. Last week, in Manhattan again, the agents came to a full stop. Eight thieves had been put under lock & key, $310,000 of the $590,000 recovered. No. 1 man, whom the G-Men called "one of the shrewdest security thieves in the country," was a shifty-eyed, weasel-faced Manhattan barber. For all their trouble, the gangsters had been unable to cash one note. How they had effected the robbery in the first place was the Department of Justice's secret...
Bing Crosby stows away on a liner out of sympathy for Ida Lupino, a girl he meets in a night club, who has been kidnapped by gangsters hired by Arthur Treacher to take her back to England where she is supposed to marry someone. G-men arrest a bishop because they have heard that Charles Ruggles, Public Enemy No. 13, who is dissatisfied with his number and waiting for "the new ranking to come out," is traveling aboard the same ship as a cleric. Ruggles makes himself useful stealing clothes for Stowaway Crosby but rouses suspicion when he uses...
Engaged by the U. S. Department of Justice to teach its G-Men jujitsu was Philadelphia's Socialite Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr., 61, father of the U. S. Minister to Norway, oldtime amateur boxer ("Tim O'Biddle...