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Not even this story brought action Rhy, the clvil service commission, Federal agents, seeking kidnaping . (WANES and bands of bank robbers _‘who terrorized the middle west tn. 7027 and 18d, began work in The | ‘Twin Cities as the best points at . which to pick up the trails of their quarries. lu. ic return to the decade of the twenties. Not only was Minne- " esnotic a hideout for visiting crimi- ais but it also was the home stamping ground for one of the largest and best organized alcohol Yings in the country. 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NS PInom Wasva js0ur UP Ut payriom att sono pur A piIdiince 5) Ag <a “yy Lak aw | GO M2M0g ld9AD7) UL ~The widow ‘agréét.” Dw It -never has -been_paid According - to Mrs. Winkier. © a The most concrete evidence oon eerning the activities of the alcohol and vice syndicate was obtained by federal agents and county authori: ‘ties in December, 1933, when Con- ..one of Althen’s women, who toid rad Althen, who once was a golf how he labored over his accounting. professional at the Minnepau course at Minneapolis, was found slain. Althen, who. was an expert ac .countant as well as a golfer, was the bookkeeper for the syndicate. . He had been serving the ring since _ 1926, rendering quarterly - state - ments as concise and balanced Ras One week before his body was found the federal grand jury in Minneapolis had voted aecret indict- ments against 38 of the better known hoodlums in ‘that cfty’s un derworld. The ringleaders, their chief, lieutenants and Althen were alj}-named, although this informa- wowae at that time had pat been made Newer blic. cy : r It was apparent, however, “that deral men were anxious te seize Bithen. The day after the indict- pents were returned they raided an F-artment house where he had been .ing. Finding agents at front and famar, Althen jumped, from a window ma.d escaped. Althen went into hiding. His Sa.ends, according to police, sought ag) out and Mender on the indictment. They to the trap. yytie joined “the boys,” who pro- Acéed quickly to slug him ‘nto un- nsciousness and then drive to a eniely road near South St. Paul. hs ere evidently he regained con- camemiousness ag he was pitched into * ditch. His bullet riddled body ns found the next morning. It iay the right side with the left hand sed as if to ward off a blow. . cirele of empty shells on the idside above the body clearly told wa machine gunner stood there d let fy a burst of 14 shots, all t one of which struck Althen. e bdoks Althen kept have never en found. It ls assumed that his ends who feared he might Dive " ff he got into hands of e federal investigatora destroyed ‘Seethe inMices dee si Seceppeki? 2 MeCuy _ Althen’s slayers, was unable to give "_Larmment agents concluded they had "gone the indictments were dropped, advised *him to sur-'~” igo ent _mocounts,”- im - Zaapen pj. ralions “éf “the. ‘epnticat which vecoris_of the fine brands” These attacks lial been growing : vEnport et ancut Jiguors demanted by. cer. “Hetensity over a gerlod of sever: |, wiling her taln patrons were kept; @ profit and - @ponths, and Guilford bad receiv: tec, toss statement for the-entine organ: Ioany Warnlogs that unless he s ization, and separate accountings printing stories about the und ‘Yor each df & Gozen Nquer producing--—-werld -he would -be sain. plants, for gambling houses and for ~~ vice resorts. | ee Some of the information Jacking tn these records was supplied by . The. Minneapolis newspape: while reluctant to recognize Gu ford a8 a newspaper man, demand action upon this shooting, saying was an attempt to silence the fi press. At first it seemed they mig get what they demanded, for Gu ford from his hospital bed identifi Harry Jaffa and “Irish” Gott) as his assailants. The two gunr. were seized and jailed. Then th were identified by other witnes: "Wo Charges were placed agai: the men, however, ihe The woman, although bitter against any help in the hunt for the actual! books. ‘The searchers were particu-— arly anxious to find the books, since much of the government's + case against the syndicate members depended upon finding them. After months of searching, gov-"_ and they we not taken before the grand jury County Attorney Floyd Olson. Th when his recovery had become certainty, Guilford began to wa in his story. While yet conval ing he identified pictures of a n who was in a penitenttary as of his attackers. Later he Fiulppy Share and a gunman, J Gould, of Chicago, had done When he emerged irom the } pital the charges against all been destroyed about the time Al- then was slain. With the books only ten of the 38 men named in the original true bills being brought inte court Most of these escaped prison, merely paying nominal fines. The real strength of this organ- fzed gangland was first shown in “4927. It was demonstrated when a eoupe containing two men drew alongside the car containing How- ard Guilford, publisher of the Sat- urday Press, a weekly newspaper of Minneapolis, at Lowry avenue and West Broadway. With Guilford was sitting his sister-in-law. One of the men within the coupe fired five shots at Guilford, leaning Read: “A BOYCOT Sets CAPS Wal WI kao The Wrec Recorc Bisce April, 196, Communist Loral 5 Be Six Human Liver: Millions of Dolan ta Tea Thousand Jobe of Willing Workers; 5 One Firm, and the City, Ite High Stendio, Taking the Governor's Advice to“Organite a: mands,” Taking Courage From the Hayor' the Law's Inertia, the Public's Indifference - pidity, Local 57% Bids Fair to Take Over MAYOR HOLDS | TO STRUTW! , nisl < “Worded Promise of Potice Protec (Associated Press photo.} Howard Guilford, publisher of Saturday Press, who was wound- ed by gunmen in 1927. Seven years later ha was slain. Ton half of the: first page c J. M, Near-ne