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Woman Detective Draws Pistol, Seizes Racketeer (12/21/38)
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Posted on 12/21/2008 6:11:50 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

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1 posted on 12/21/2008 6:11:51 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: fredhead; r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; ...
A familiar face appeared in the crowd. It was that of Charles Herbert, 47 years old, sometimes known as Chinatown Charlie. She knew Herbert, a racketeer who had been arrested frequently in the poultry racket and convicted six times on various charges.

The poultry racket?

There is also an article titled, “Japan Rushes Five Divisions to Manchukuo.” In the advertising section there is a report about a car-jacking in Yonkers. I thought that was a more recent development.

2 posted on 12/21/2008 6:14:49 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Charles "Chinatown Charley" Hebert, had been arrested frequently in the poultry racket.

Poultry racket ? What's that all about?

3 posted on 12/21/2008 6:16:56 AM PST by csvset
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To begin with, the broiler's raiser is often told to what wholesaler he may sell. The truck and the very crate in which the broiler rides to town may be under criminal control. The food the broiler gets is sold by racketeers, and in the middle of the day or night he may be surprised to find his crate broken open, himself dumped out to squawk and flap in brief freedom until a predatory child or housewife captures him from his rightful owners.

Ninety per cent of all New York poultry is consumed by Jews, who eat two pounds of kosher fowl per capita per week (see p. 24) and pay an estimated $16,000,000 a year to racketeers thereby. A swarthy man will say a blessing over the broiler when his end finally comes, and pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string along with the corrupt kosher poultry "trust"' (two who did not were shot down last year in Brooklyn and Queens), the broiler may have poison or kerosene sprinkled over him by a band of "the Boys," ex-convicts and plug-uglies who police the trust. Even the butcher on the quiet street who finally sells the broiler, should he escape all his other criminal hazards, probably has his district and his customers and his wholesaler assigned him by poultry racketeers. In The Bronx, one night early last month, police caught seven hoodlums vigorously banging sawed-off billiard cues against plate glass and fixtures, hurriedly releasing crates of fowl at the market of S. S. & B. Poultry Corp. The hoodlums were arrested, arraigned for trial last week. Soon the S. S. & B.'s proprietors — Hyman Blank, Samuel Shipper and Samuel Weiner, whose business had already been chased out of the Manhattan poultry market by gangster terrorism — went to District Attorney Samuel Foley of Bronx County, told him they preferred to have the case dropped. Clearly they had been intimidated by the racketeers.

From Time in 1933.

4 posted on 12/21/2008 7:13:23 AM PST by Dick Holmes
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Thanks for the info..

$16,000,000 a year. That's a lot of chicken.

5 posted on 12/21/2008 7:21:46 AM PST by csvset
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

One of my favorites is a woman with a gun.


7 posted on 12/21/2008 9:25:09 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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Meanwhile, the Germans are getting ready for their next step.

What had happened to the German guarantee of the rest of Czechoslovakia which Hitler had solemnly promised at Munich to give? When the new French ambassador in Berlin, Robert Coulondre, inquired of Weizsaecker on December 21, 1938, the State Secretary replied that the destiny of Czechoslovakia lay in the hands of Germany and that he rejected the idea of a British-French guarantee. As far back as October 14, when the new Czech Foreign Minister, Frantisek Chvalkovsky, had come humbly begging for crumbs at the hand of Hitler in Munich and had inquired whether Germany was going to join Britain and France in the guarantee of his country’s shrunken frontiers, the Fuehrer replied sneeringly that “the British and French guarantees were worthless . . . and that the only effective guarantee was that by Germany.”

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 437

8 posted on 12/21/2008 11:17:31 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: mountainlion

Thread is useless without Pics


9 posted on 12/21/2008 11:22:04 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Freedom- 07-04-1776-11-06-2008. RIP)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Looks like the state couldn’t handle it, and the feds finally had to step in in 1935:

TITLE 7 > CHAPTER 9 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part A > § 192
It shall be unlawful for any packer or swine contractor with respect to livestock, meats, meat food products, or livestock products in unmanufactured form, or for any live poultry dealer with respect to live poultry, to:
(a) Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device; or
(b) Make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect, or subject any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect; or
(c) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other packer, swine contractor, or any live poultry dealer, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other packer, swine contractor, or any live poultry dealer, any article for the purpose or with the effect of apportioning the supply between any such persons, if such apportionment has the tendency or effect of restraining commerce or of creating a monopoly; or
(d) Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other person, or buy or otherwise receive from or for any other person, any article for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce; or
(e) Engage in any course of business or do any act for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of, buying, selling, or dealing in, any article, or of restraining commerce; or
(f) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person
(1) to apportion territory for carrying on business, or
(2) to apportion purchases or sales of any article, or
(3) to manipulate or control prices; or
(g) Conspire, combine, agree, or arrange with any other person to do, or aid or abet the doing of, any act made unlawful by subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of this section.
1935—Act Aug. 15, 1921, title V, § 503, as added Aug. 14, 1935, inserted “or any live poultry dealer or handler” after “packer” wherever appearing.


10 posted on 12/21/2008 11:27:45 AM PST by PAR35
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I can make better pictures in my mind sometimes. just imagine Dick Tracy and a woman of his era running after a crook, hair and dress flying.
11 posted on 12/21/2008 11:40:40 AM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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What about Lauren Bacall and Bogart.


12 posted on 12/21/2008 11:56:09 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Freedom- 07-04-1776-11-06-2008. RIP)
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I don’t remember seeing Lauren Bacall run. Oh never mind, I just imagined it.


13 posted on 12/21/2008 12:09:13 PM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: mountainlion
women were so sexy back then with a air of class and smoldering sexuality
14 posted on 12/21/2008 12:16:31 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Freedom- 07-04-1776-11-06-2008. RIP)
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To: Yorlik803

women were so sexy back then with a air of class and smoldering sexuality

Now they are so skinny and sleazy.


15 posted on 12/21/2008 12:37:22 PM PST by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: mountainlion

Too True


16 posted on 12/21/2008 12:49:01 PM PST by Yorlik803 ( Freedom- 07-04-1776-11-06-2008. RIP)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Please put me on your ping list.

Thank you.


17 posted on 12/21/2008 1:35:49 PM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Ain't nuthin' new under heaven....Mrry Christmas Homey.


18 posted on 12/21/2008 3:06:57 PM PST by Tainan (Yeah, its confusing. But what else is there to do?)
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To: Yorlik803
Thread is useless without Pics

see #18...Merry Christmas
19 posted on 12/21/2008 3:09:38 PM PST by Tainan (Yeah, its confusing. But what else is there to do?)
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http://www.cherrylaneproductions.com/sleuthing/sleuthing.html

20 posted on 07/31/2009 11:38:30 PM PDT by GeronL (Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
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