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...Chicago today is a cleaner town than New York," commented Frank J. Loesch, noted Chicago lawyer, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday afternoon. Mr. Loesch reviewed his fight to convict Chicago gangsters in a speech he delivered last night in the Court Room of Langdell Hall...
...Loesch grinned slightly when he recalled his first attempts to clean up Chicago under the Thompson regime. "It took us two months to get rid of Big Bill's police chief, Hughes. Once we got him before the grand jury, the Thompson machine itself forced him to resign. The work we then started back in 1928 has not stopped; today men such as Police Chief Allman are valiantly fighting crime in Chicago. Definitely less corruption exists there than in New York...
...Lindbergh kidnapping might have been solved if the federal secret service alone had taken charge of it," continued Mr. Loesch. "It was mishandled because of the professional pride of the New Jersey police. What America needs is a centralized police force as in France. That would allow one officer to pursue his criminal all over the country without consulting bothersome local authorities...
...years' service as president of the Chicago Crime Commission well prepared Frank J. Loesch for the subject of his speech, "The Duty a Lawyer Owes to the Public" which he delivers at 8 o'clock tonight in Langdell Hall. It is rumored that Mr. Loesch was one of the members of the mysterious "secret six" that swore to clean up crime in Chicago...
...assistant to the state's attorney of Cook County, he helped put many gangsters behind the bars. During his career as a lawyer in Chicago, Mr. Loesch was special state's attorney for Cook County to investigate frauds, and chief special assistant attorney general of Illinois, to investigate bombings and kidnappings in elections. In 1929, President Hoover appointed Mr. Loesch one of the eleven members of the National Committee on Law Observation and Enforcement...