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20 Es TT EEE % f Mr. Tolson........- ee = $30,00 for Lepke City and Federal rewards for informa- ‘tion leading to the capture, dead or alive, ‘of Louis (Lepke) Buchalter now come to a total of $30,000-.since the Board of Esti- mate raised the city’s offer to $25,000. _ That is a lot of money for government to give away for the capture of a racketeer -~enough to pay a year’s home relief for twenty-four families or to support 6,000 refugee children abroad or to build ten small suburban homes, The $30,000 is being offered in an attempt to persuade some one of the many persons who must know Lepke’s where- abouts to tell the police despite the fear ‘of gangster reprisals. The reward is loffered to make it seem worth the chance. In this case the reward should produce results. Any one who gives a clue to Lepke’s hideout can be sure of full pro- tection from United States Attorney Cahill or District Attorney Dewey. They will: keep the name of the informant secret. . . The very fact that fear of reprisals from the Lepke mob exists justifies the offering of so large a reward. The Lepke ‘mob, by committing a series of murders of potential witnesses against its chief, ppt the racketeer’s weapon of terrorism to thie tegt against the weapons of civilized goy- ieriiment. The government has a right to ‘ust its arsenal, Clipping from NEW YORK POST cet3- AUG B 1939 “Caisndve uy NEN YORK vidgtctoN. -€o-ISOIA sect ¥