[Homer_J_Simpson]

Reles is Telling Story of Murders Done by His Gang – 2-4
Reles Described as Vicious Thug – 4-5
Reles Began Crime Career at the Age of 13; His Record Has 41 Arrests, 7 Convictions – 4
Byrd Starts Return from the Antarctic – 5
FCC Stays Start in Television, Rebukes R.C.A. for Sales Drive – 6
Cold, Clear Easter Faces Paraders; Worshipers Will Throng Churches – 7-8
3,000 Children Beat Bell And 3,600 Eggs Go Fast – 8
Snowdrifts Maroon Motorists Up-State – 8
3 Nations to Hail City Seaplane Base – 9

News of the Week in Review
A British [artist’s] conception of an air battle above a North Sea Convoy – 10
The Arena of Air Power’s Challenge to Sea Power (Photo, Map) – 11
Twenty News Questions – 12
Air Power Tries Again in a War on Sea Power – 13-14
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 14

[abb]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/mar40/f24mar40.htm

French and German patrols active
Sunday, March 24, 1940 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... There are reports of French and German patrols being active long the lines.

[abb]

March 24th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM: NORTH SEA: A British submarine sinks the German cargo ship Hugo Stinnes IV off the Danish Coast.

[abb]

http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Day 206 March 24, 1940
Following the Finnish capitulation, the Allies lose focus on Scandinavia and their plans diverge. The British attend to shoring up their air defenses following the bombing of Scapa Flow on March 16. Paul Reynaud’s new French government considers anything that will not involve fighting on French soil, including submarine attacks on Soviet shipping in the Black Sea or bombing Soviet oilfields at Baku on the Caspian Sea to deprive USSR and Germany of oil.

A torpedo accidentally explodes as French destroyer La Railleuse is leaving port in Casablanca. La Railleuse is destroyed and 28 crewmen are killed with 24 wounded.

[henkster]

Homer:

Thanks for the 70 year-old crime beat. Having been a prosecutor for 18 years and now doing defense work, I like reading the old crime stories. Thanks for the change of pace today.

Reles was a thug, and a low-level one at that. Meyer Lansky would never go to Temple with him. The popular image of the “gangster” of this era is of a person of Italian extraction wearing suits with loud pin-striping, but the “Jewish Mafia” was always part of the game, from all the way at th top like Lansky who ran the high-level operations such as the docks, casinos, etc.... It went all the way down to the low-level fish-market stuff with losers like Reles. I’m sure there was a “cut” for Luciano and Lansky in Reles’ business, and Reles would sometimes be tapped for “jobs.” Thug and criminal as he was, Reles was still a punk.

Here in Indianapolis we had our own Jewish Mafia run by “Tuffy” Mitchell. Tuffy ran most of the “pea shake” houses down in the black part of town. Tuffy’s nephew was one of my best friends in high school. I always wondered what his dad (Tuffy’s brother) did, but his dad went nuts if I ever went near his “office” in the home. Ahhh...maybe it was just concern about the “office in the home” for tax reasons....

[Lancey Howard]

“Reles described as vicious thug”

This particular report is amazing.
People just don’t write like that anymore.