The Illinois standard. [volume], October 23, 1948, Page 2, Image 2

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AWAIT SUPREME COURT BALLOT RULING
It's an even-money gamble
when you murder in Chicago
You've got nearly a 50-f>0 chance of getting away w'ith
murder in Chicago!
Forty-five per cent of the murders that took place in
Chicago or the rest of Cook County in 1947 were still un
solved at the end of the year.
At least, there had been no
convictions.
The Chicago Crime Com
mission reported this week that
the county coroner’s office lists
86 murders for last year. There
were convictions in only 47 of
these cases: no one was sen
tenced to the electric chair or
to the penitentiary for the re
maining 39.
But even those figures sound
better than the basic facts. Of
the 47 cases that resulted in
convictions, only 26 actually
went to the state penitentiary
under long murder sentences.
Seventeen others were con
victed of the much less serious
crime of manslaugnter -— and
four others, convicted of man
slaughter too, were freed on pro
bation.
But even those figures sound
better than the full truth. For
there were, not 86, but 177
“felonious homicides”—murders
—in the county in 1947. accord
ing to the coroner's figures.
And the muraer rate becomes
even worse if you judge by
police department statistics
rather than the coroner's claims.
The police department re
ported 209 murders for 1947,
according to the Chicago Crime
Commission.
If the police department’s
figures are accurate, you've
actually got better than a 2-to-l
c' ince of getting off scot free
if you murder your favorite
enemy.
Why can't the police—who
are experts at breaking strikes
—break murder cases?
Why haven't they been able
to halt the increase in rapes
(473 here last year), robberies,
and other crimes of violence?
The Chicago Crime Commis
sion gives part of the answer, in
a report on “incursions of crimi
nal adventurers into politics.”
The political impact of this'
gang (the Capone-Guzik-Levin
mob) has been tremendous,”
Virgil W. Peterson, the commis
sion's operating director, reports
soberly.
“The members of (this gang)
have flourished under a system
of political protection so absolute
that no important member of the
gang has ever been successfully
prosecuted in the . . . criminal
court and sent to prison.”
Combined with recent charges
that the Chicago Police depart
ment is ruled by politics, and
not the civil service system, Pe
terson's report goes a long way
in explaining why you can get
away with murder in Chicago—
at least half the time.
SUSPECT in last April's shooting
of Walter Reuther, CIO auto
workers chief, is Carl E. Bolton,
who's charged with assault with
intent to kill. Bolton, former vice
president of Ford Local 400, was
a member of Reuther's own
right-wing faction in union.
III. 'Little Dies' Committee
holds first Springfield meet
Illinois’ 'Little Dies” commit
tee held its first meeting at
Springfield last week, to hear a
report on "subversive activities”
in the state from its investigator.
The report will be used as the
basis for legislative proposals
which the committee later will
draw up for submission to the
Baby-sitters
for Wallace
Those household tyrants—
babies—won’t be permitted
to keep Progressives away
from the polls Nov. 2, ac
cording to Mrs. Mildred
Treffman, vice-chairman of
Women for Wallace. She
said that Women for Wall
ace are forming into baby
sitting groups, in order to
care for the younger genera
tion while the parents vote.
The idea worked out well
when it was first tried dur
ing the recent registration
drive, she said.
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66lh General Assembly (state
legislature) which will convene
in January, according to Roland
V. Libonati, Democratic state
senator from Chicago's 17th dis
trict.
Libonati, a member of the
Broyles Commission, as it is
called, said that the investigator
has been studying "anti-subver
sive” laws in other states and
results of studies by other gov
ernmental bodies.
It is understood that the in
vestigator has been concentrat
ing his efforts on schools
throughout the state. It is known
that he questioned a number of
University of Chicago students
last Spring, as exclusively re
vealed by this newspaper at the
time.
No public hearings, such as
the House Un-American Com
rrittca conducts, have been held
by the Broyles Commission, and
none are planned, according to
Libonati, who is the brother of
Elliodor Libonati, chairman of
the state Americanism commit
tee of the American Legion,
which brought about the ap
pointment of the 15-man Broyles
Commission.
Friend of labor?
ST. LOUIS — (FP) — The
GOP’s new labor campaign
chairman is a flop with organ
ized labor in his home state of
Missouri.
Named to the post was St.
Louis lawyer Barak T. Matting
ly, who Republican Chairman
Herbert Brownell said enjoyed
"mutual respect and confidence"
with the AFL and CIO. This
brought a prompt denial from
Sec. Oscar Ehrhardt of the St.
Louis CIO Council, who said this
was ‘‘the first intimation we
have that he has any knowledge
or sympathy for our problems."
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U.S. high court hears
plea in record time
Illinois Progressives, swinging into the last stretch of
an intensive Cook County campaign, this week awaited
hourly a U.S. Supreme Court decision deciding whether
Henry Wallace, Glen Taylor and the Progressive state slate
are to be on the ballot.
In unique procedure before
the high court, jurisdiction was
taken and the arguments of both
sides heard in a four-day period.
Israelis hit
Bunche bias
PARIS — Although Egyptian
forces opened the battle of the
Negev desert by tiring on Jew
ish convoys last Friday, Israel
was accused of responsibility for
the new outbreak of hostilities
by Dr, Ralph Bunche, acting
mediator of the Palestine dis
pute.
The United Nations Security
Council ordered both Arabs and
Jews to cease fire Tuesday.
Bunche’s charges a g a i n st
Israel, contradicted by all re
ports from the Holy Land, were
cited as an example of bias
against the new democracy.
It W’as Bunche who submitted
Count Bernadotte's posthumous
report on Palestine to the UN.
Bernadotte's proposals, Israeli
sources say, would virtually de
stroy the new state.
Germans hit U.S.
support of Nazis
BERLIN—(ALN)—West Ger
man unionists are protesting
against orders from U.S. and
British occupation authorities to
reinstate former Hitler Labor
Front officials in factory coun
cils. Many of these officials, like
more important Nazis, have
been arbitrarily cleared by
Allied courts despite strong evi
dence against them. But even
this does not make their reap
pointment legal, the workers
say, because Allied Control
Council Law 22 specifically bars
former fascists from works coun
cil jobs.
AID CUT OFF
BERLIN —(ALN)— Special
food rations for former concen
tration camp inmates have been
cancelled in the Anglo-Ameri
can zone. The Nazi victims had
been receiving the extra rationa
to supplement their regular
issue. Military government offi
cials issuing the order said the
victims “do not need them.”
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Despite the fact that the Pro
gressive party had ample signa
tures, correctly distributed to
comply with the law, the appeal
was taken on the basis of un
constitutionality of the Illinois
election law.
Melvin F. Wingersky, Cook
County assistant state's attor
ney, did not challenge this con
tention, which was joined in by
William C. Wines, representa
tive of Illinois Attorney General
George F. Barrett.
Progressive attorneys laid
down a flat challenge to claims
by Wingersky that there was no
time to print the ballots with
the Progressive statewide candi
dates.
They produced a series of af
fidavits by Chicago printers de
claring that the job could be
done.
Attorneys for the Board of
Election Commissioners success
fully kept the Progressive pri
mary ticket in Cook County off
the ballot with a similar conten
tion after the Illinois Supreme
Court ruled the party legal in
the county.
John Abt, national Progres
sive counsel, and Richard F.
Watt, Illinois attorney, told the
justices that the state law re
q u i r i n g 200 signatures from
each of 50 counties, made it pos
sible for 86 per cent of the
voters in the 49 most populous
counties to be deprived of the
right to vote for a candidate of
their choice.
This in effect means that a
candidate who could be easily
elected would not appear on the
ballot, Watt and Abt pointed
out.
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