Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 5 1933 V A ‘ 1 1 - Beyond the Limit Murder and Merriment Went Hdtid in Hand and Gangsters and Debs Rubbed Elbows— Outside A the Law 6 3-M- ile fltS' i in tl vr A S' v ' y? I!' "" CITYJJF jca 4 ’ 'V ' ‘M PA!AXA PANAMA v V" Hi- 41 -- X t ? Mildrsd Irwin Msmbsr of t itha Cay party That Eadad in t A to y- 4 Dssth i ' Miss s N to? ' S "fc‘Qx - “4'“ s fv (V Jb hi W: PLEASURE SHIP tha Gambling Ship “City Panama” Thia and Similar Vaaala Ara Anchored Off fhe ifornia Coast Near Loa Angeles The Inset 'Sh of Patrons on tha Boat Around a Roulette Group Wheel i Above I ?£$??? ' ®f £rc c :S T WAS 'Where on eartji li Janie?” and “I wonder why Tom 'doesn’t come home”— and ’’Call the police I” and “Phone the emergency hos-pitalP—on two different nights in Los Angeles recently The number of worried wives and sleepless parents who called up the au- -' thorities for news of their loved ones aet a record for that city ealls came from the homes of the rich and the poor from society folk from the parents of boys and the hired "mothers” of movie stars The reason in both' cases was the same Each time It was a murder on a gambling-shipon : of the anchored outside the “pleasure-ships- ” three-mil- e limit or steaming out in the THE VICTIM ocean on “cruises to Nowhere” Robert Moody Young Loa Angolas When the murders occurred the Business Man Who Discovered the Dangers of Gambling Ships news got to shore and the police and Federal authorities detained everybody aboard ship startled Los Angeles and aboard for investigation haven’t died down yet Many a sowife pictuhusband a and ciety many The city whose local moral laws are re-star whose a many boy and girl the strictest in tl® Union woke up mammas didn’t know they were out with a jar to the menace that had simply “didn’t get home till morning” crept in from seaward A Federal They’d been out “bucking the tiger” District Attorney took a hurried trip only to be caught in a murder-ne- t to Washington to see what could be And the reverberations in the form done Local authorities were helpless of domestic difficulties whispered The gambling-ship- s have been an scandal revelations of big sums won problem in Southern Caliand lost of social caste-line- s crossed fornia for more than two years past high-scho- S' :h ol off-sho- re They’ve been the underworld’s latest reply to strict regulation on land the last upflare of gangsterism before the repeal of prohibition Routed from shore and schooled by rum-fleexperience to the gratifying knowledge that the ocean is free the d 'purveyors of forbidden amusements and vices have been taking to the ocean with a “shiver my timbers” and a Jerry the gangster Tony of the speakeasy Big Mike of the gambling-palac- e have become Jack' Tar It’s a development of which this country with its long seacoasts likely to see much in trie coming days when liquor is legalized and the' wealthy underworld its occupation gone is battling for new income In two sections particularly namely the waters of Southern California and Florida such “pleasure-ships- ” have grown into considerable fleets New York and other seaports have had their “cruises to Nowhere” The calmer Southern waters have seen a more elaborate development of the'' same idea in the form of anchored “pleasure-ships- ” with bars and gambling-tables and other lures and do a rushipg business The mixed and motley Los Angeles crowds were to find out all about the flies in this particular ointment On Bhore when there’s a fight in a speakthere’s easy usually a cop just outside and your life is fairly safe But sea “the law” isn’t around — and the merry-makin- g can’t conceal fact that the guests are in tne hands of thugs and ruffians Los Angeles had a fordtaste of just m iMi re “yo-ho-h- vice-fle- off-sho- re Sea-taxi- I CHIEF WITNESS Norman Burgeti Upon Whoio Story Police Aro Placing Their Main Reliance to Uphold tho Murder Charge Against the Ship’s Officers et 4 i persons Gaiety and grimness Beauty and paint Bright eyes and shifty eyes Lawful wealth and the other kind Photos taken that night around the crap-tabl- q show the presence of every well-know- joy-boa- ts 1 c vice-ship ' or you’ll get the same your pal got’ 1 began to see red I tried to rush the two men They grabbed me and One man struck me in j we scuffled the face and body repeatedly Then I was handcuffed and pushed down to the lower deck “There was Bob lying 'flat on" tffe’ floor moaning in pain” Moody's skull was fractured Aft£r a long delay Burgess was liberated and he and the girls got their friend ashore Moody was and gasping” and before long he was dPad ' Miss Henke quoted a ship's officer as saying to her: “Things like this happen every-othnight on board!” The detention of all the guests for investigation — the arrests of First Officer James Ford and Master-at-arm- s John L Costello on Federal murder charges — and the act of the Panamanian consul in depriving the "City of Panama” of its charter from his government followed this grim affair But more was to come: Aboard the anchored gambling-shiJohanna Smith II” only a few week later James John Walsh a pasty-face- d youth of 22 shot and murdered his pal Buell Dawson It was charged The two had come from St Louis according to Federal agents who questioned Walsh with plans to kidnap E L Do- p what this could imply when in July a year ago “Jimmy” O’Keefe who dealt the cards in the black-jac- k game aboard the anchored gambling-shi- p “Rose Isle” killed "Charlie” Bozeman a gambler Bozeman had got ugly over his losses and O’Keefe who had worked as a “bouncer” in dives shot him dead The killer was tried in Federal court for the crime of murder at sea He was convicted but mitigating circumstances in the character and actions of the slain man resulted in a sentence of five years’ probation There was agitation at this time for some legal move to do away with the but nothing came of it The owners of the Rose Isle 'changed her name to “Johanna Smith II” and continued business as usual Some quite respectable people were embarrassedon this occasion by being called as witnesses and having to reveal their presence on the notorious Certain wives daughters pofis and husbands had to make elaborate explanations in answer to the n THAT’S phrase: “So where you’ve been going all these nights 1” There was a minor rumble not long afterward when a rich sportsman 'E L “Zeke” Caress was kidnaped by lie gave them ransom-check- s gangsters and was set free The gangsters were trapped at Long Beach just as they were taking a sea-tafor one of the gamblingships They admitted rat-eye- p j vy Jh 2 x‘- SHE TOLD Edna Hanka Shocked a Coroner' Jury With Her Account of tho Fatal Doing Op tha - Joy-Shi- frXS Y V 1 social type First Moody Burgess and the girls had a couple of drinks Then xi r-n- M' -- She Has Untied 1500 Marriage Knots probably knows more about than any other woman living And ahe has never been married herself Ulsa Felice Cohn attorney of Reno -- Nevada has assisted in the majorjn-dustr- y of that town—divorce—in well over 1500 cases Miss Cohn is the only woman lawyer in Reno She does not confine her activity to her specialty bftt is also United States referee in bankruptcy for Nevada At ona time of the American she was Bar Association in Which she is still interested Women outnumber men by more than two to one in seeking Reno freedom but 70 per cent of Miss Cohn’s clients are men Listening to their Sake of woe has given her very definite ideas on (the subject of marriage fail- ure - en ' f ( ' -- points out the absurdity of a person being single in one State married in - jmother ania bigamist in still soother — all at one and tne'sameTime “Z think it is deplorsble tho that a Stste liks New York has but one ground tor divorce end the State oi South Carolina none at all Such conditions make tor immorality and often directly promote rather than retard the number of divorces ” She feels that the only ideal solution will be the eventual enactment of nationally uniform divorce laws Miss Cohn is hopeful of the position of Reno as “divorce capital" of the United States Other States are offering keen competition by liberalizing their laws but she holds that Reno’s climatic and scenic attractions will give Jt the advantage Nevada has been forced to change the required period of residence from six months to three months and then finally to six weeks Miss Cohn thinks that the three months’ period was the best but says that it would be folly to go back to it Her ’reason are that the longer period brings a better class of divorce seeker and Is reflected economically in the community They would pay better attorney fees and spend more Ml Felice Cohn Who Hat Helped money with the merchants of Reno Sander Over 1500 Marriages and the OssmWA INk It Has t-t- f - i f71 partners” Miss Oohn deplores the divorce situation in the United States today and nt She lay the majority of divorce cases on the doorstep 'of that everpresent source of good and fvil— money “Domestio quarrels that eventually wind up in opr courts” she says “can be traced directly to money feneraily a man especially true-whmarries a woman who previously earned her own livelihood “In hundred of divorce cases I have been in contact with either the husband has heed too plcayunish in money ma titers pr tha wife has been too extravagant Too many men and women in thia dJX nt age have not 7 mmm&ms&MM yet realized that their wives and husbands should be regarded by them as SHE S !' A Latter from Jamos Walih to a Pah " ‘Fortune or tho morgue’ our motto oh Pal I would sure liko to put lot of mono into circulation and i( 1 get a few grand ma for N Y and ‘liva right’ Wa can bur a ahot-gu- n id L A for $15 and with rour 3 rodt and lalph’s car wo will do thing in a big way Killed i they sat and watched the Then they went but on deck —just when the gaming-table- s were opening p Moody a natural clown begarj to be the “life of the party” He sang and he danced Let Burgc'ss tell it: “A crowd gathered I joining in the fun guess it was drawing all the guests away from Hie and the bar gaming-tabl- e for a man came and told us we had to stop EveryThe' one just laughed officer got ugly ana said: ‘If you don It stop we’ll floor-sho- V j - j w they were going there to iV get the checks cashed by their friends who ran the vessel These kidnappers were convicted James Walab Who Maritime trade ian - Confessed 'to Killing guished for a time Then Robert Lorraine and the operators hit upon the Who Planned to Kidnap device of distributing free L E Doheny Four passes broadcast of them drifted into the hands of take care of you I’ Robert L Moody a youn tg business VMoody still clowning a little man' He gathered up his chum walked over to the side of the ship as Norman Burgess and two if Seasick With that two o three Mildred Irwin and Edna Henke All 1 heard a woman men grabbed him were in their middle twenties scream ‘My God they’re slugging They went aboard the “City of him!’ Panama” leaving Long Beach lor a I asked “Moody had' “cruise to Nowhere” to find themselves what they had disappeared done with him and a of 200 a crowd of man snarled: ‘You get back you happy motley part gasfeOM girl-frien- -- frmdlwtsb TWO MURDERS Another Gambling Ship “Johanna Smith JI” on Which Two Underworld Characters Hava Boon heny the oil magnate "as a starter” They— along with the sbeiety folk and movie people and had gone out to the vice-shi- p as and patrons and had quarrelledguests over a nice point of criminal ethics Dawson had said he’d kill anyone who got in hTs way during a crime while Buell said he d kill only a cojf So they drew guns according to the'lnvestigators So much noise was being made on the ship that nobody heard the shots Walsh nearly got to shore after this crime: The only cluesafely was that a man had been seen alone on deck wearing a snap-brihat A dozen citizens with snap-hat- s including Walsh were held and questioned Meanwhile the murderer’s gun was were said to Walshs Refingerprints confessed Later Pea(ed not guilty to the charge1' S° 1j03 Angeles knows now what sort folk run and frequent the gambling-ship- s But the apparently government is working hard on the problem trying to evolve a way to defeat the Underworld What to do about it is another matter fun-seeke- rs m I'Wi11 Im V ’ |