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Show FBltemi and G-Maneuvers I In the gangster film about Roger ! Touhy and his gang the producer! ; lost a few good tricks which appar-! appar-! ently the gov't agents didn't tell j them about after Touhy and his 1 mob were recaptured. . . . Frix-5 Frix-5 ample: When the FBI went into the rooms of two of the gang they didn't notice a match stuck at the top of the door. ... To let the gang know if anyone entered during ' their absence. One mobster had J started opening the door when he realized the planted match was gone. ... So he started firing his revolver. . . . The agent came out shooting too, and two of Touhy' 1 pals were hit by the marksman and went to heaven. Then there's the episode in the butcher shop. ... A uniformed chauffeur turns out to be one ol the Touhy gangsters. He went to purchase meat in the neighborhood for Touhy (and the others) whc didn't risk coming out of the house. . . . The butcher shop, however, was staffed by G-Men. . . . After a signal from one butcher a bike-rider G-Man tailed the chauffeur to the scene where Touhy was hiding. . . . But the confederate was not disguised dis-guised as a chauffeur in the actual kidnap. . . . The movie people apparently ap-parently didn't want to offend the The disguise worn by the gangstei in the meat shop was that of a priest. The average newspaper reader, read-er, recalling Touhy'i mob, will think the snatched man Is the rich Jake the Barber, victim of that gang. . . . But in the film the producers purposely switched things to give the story more pep. . . . Jake the Barber's real tortures cannot be screened or even written about so vile were they. ... So for the screen the authors and director borrowed bor-rowed several Interesting Items from the kidnappings of a wealthy youth' named Rosenthal (in New York) and the Urschel snatch in the West. ... All the kidnappers are now rusting and rotting in prison on sentences for life. The most frightful moment in Director Di-rector J. Edgar Hoover's entire life happened that terrible 5 in the morning when the night was still black. . . . Hoover and some of the agents attacked the Touhy mob from the rear of the building other FBI men covered the front. . . . Mr. Hoover, revolver in paw, climbed over the back fence and tread softly to the back door, where he let out the most piercing shriek ever heard anywhere in the whole world. ... It seems that a poor, little, inoffen-sive, inoffen-sive, sleeping black cat was stepped on by the most famed of all G-Men, and it let out one screetch, which the startled G-Man tried to out-hcl-ler. FBI agents the other day were in vestigating a theft of gov't-owned cigarettes destined for overseas shipment ... The fnrcm 9n tirho had denied any knowledge of the theft, produced a package of cigar-ettes cigar-ettes bearing a give-away gov't label. . . . The agent, who had mooched a cigarette with a definite purpose, forthwith arrested the foreman, who was charged with the crime. One of the problems confronting confront-ing the FBI these days is the apprehension of individuals obtaining ob-taining money fraudulently under un-der the Servicemen's Dependents Depend-ents Allowance Act. Sixty-nine convictions have resulted during the first ten months of the 1944 rm.1 itfar' An oddily in th BIS files on this subject has to do with a Louisville, Ky., woman who, when questioned by FBI agents, offered to return fourteen $50 checks she got ille- gaily, but hadn't spent. She said "he had kept all the checks ex- ) cept one, which the soldier him- self cashed, and that she was 1 most Willing .. ' it, cvurn mem to the Government. The alertness of G-Men was dem-onstrated dem-onstrated again the other day Tn Los ses. An agent spied a mar tte street whom he recognize?" ssued a few days before. Although " toe su t produced ugr live service cards, the G-Man was Persistent and took his nnge"rtat, whereupon the fugitive admitted his nect n Stte in con bery " "'uw narcotics rob Among the latest rackets discovered dis-covered by the John a Hoovers is that one us hi .ome rtune-tellersV S J SSI 1 draft-dod"s. ... We neat fees . "k'e ' ' he ' of the army." . 7 ,ferf Pocus, however V Bol effective m . very ' EE - federal hoosegow, Wher h-cau't h-cau't predict her release? " |