Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-25 | Page 1 | White Slaving Arresta Made

WHITE SLAVING VINC ARRESTS MADE Men G-Men Take Eight in Alleged Ring V WASHINGTON A April 25 U UP-J. UP J. J JEdgar Edgar Ho Hoover ver announced ed today arr arrest arrest ar ar- ar- ar r rest st of ot e eight persons in what is be believed believed be- be to be a ring of at negro men engaged in white slave slave traffic of transporting white women from Chicago to the Harlem district In New York City for prostitution The chief of the investigation bureau bureau bu bu- reau said three negro men and five white women were named in a complaint filed this morning before the tho United States commissioner In New York Hoover said the white women were brought to 10 New York City and forced to prostitute themselves themselves themselves them them- selves with J negro men in the Harlem Harlem Har Har- lem lent district their illicit earnings furnishing the income for forthe the negro men who drove expensive automobiles automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles an and frequently made trips to other cities to attend prize fights T The e. e eight ight persons charged with conspiring in the interstate transportation transportation trans trans- n of women for prostitution were Leon Richard Smith 36 Garland Garland Garland Gar Gar- land A. A Patton 44 R Robert bert Edward Smith 36 Catherine Hill Boosey 23 Betty Parker 32 Mrs Leon Richard Smith 30 Dorothy Moritz 31 and Betty Tobin 35 Tho The eight have been taken into cust custody dy by federal agents in NewYork New NewYork NewYork York Hoover said and letters anc and other do documentary um evidence seized