Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 4 | Divergent Angles of Present Crime Situation Drawn

I Divergent Angles of Pres Present en t Crime Situation Drawn KE NESS YORK AP- AP AP and other writing folk have halve lagged behind behind be- be hind the movie scenario constructors constructors tors In giving organized crime its fictional due in recent months Perhaps It Is because newspaper reporters do such a thorough job with the colorful facts of gangland that little is left for literary embellish- embellish ment And that little Is hardly suitable suitable suit suit- able material for the prolific wrIters of mystery stories Now however come two books with criminal characters of multi multi- lethal tendencies one written it should be observed by a reporter and the other by a a. former newspaper per man One Dramatic Crimes of 1927 1921 by Wilton Maclay lacay is is not fiction but the other MacKinlay Kantor's Diverse Is a novel in which are reproduced the evil doings of Chicago's Chicago's Chi Chi- cagos cago's outlaws has has' recapitulated such notorious killings as those In the train hOldup by the three dAutremont mont moat brothers and In the Lory Price episode of the southern IllInois gang wars as well as the Hickman case caseIn casein In California the LG Le Boeuf case In Louisiana and other bloodshed not so fully reported In the public publio prints and not attributable to bandits or bootleggers Kantor's story Is that of an emotional emotional emo- emo Iowa boy Harry who failing to land a newspaper reporters reporter's reporters report report- ers er's job in Chicago becomes Involved involved in- in In racketeerIng and an affair with a slum girl 1 rom From purposeless existence In a county building sinecure sinecure sine sine- cure he js is aroused by machine gun gunfire gunfire fire and writes a a. poem over which Isis his personal hero a columnist en- en After that his complexities seem to diminish