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ee a ema -2= barbers, boot-blacks and peddlers, who purchase a car of juice grapes and resell it in small lots. TonywSitch was bodyguard of Joe Ferrera in 1929 and both of these men were shot in the Spring of 1950, Ferrera being killed and Butch seriously wounded. Butch subseqwntly fled to l‘ilwaukes, Wisconsin, where he bas been in hiding up until a short time ago when he returnsd to Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Irrgang stated that the line-w rv 1930 of the racketeers for the saly of juice grapes ‘get e Chicago orthvestern track is in charge of Te@ewberry who is alifed with the aAl’Capone gang ani furnishes the money to buy the grapes. Mamy' na of the Fruit and Produce Company, Chicago, Illinois, has been pit in charge of this "racket,” and Tony Butch has been brought fran Milwaukee, Pisconsin, to work with Schrieber, Schrieber's “muscle mn" is To! omano, a racketeer who represents Newberry and Schrieber in the intimidation of juice grzpe buyers ani has charge of the gun mn. Ou Scepieuber 12, 1950, three gun men in a Buick Sedan visited tip Produce Termine] track at 27th & Ashland Aveme, Chicago, Dllinocis, for the purpose of intimidating the buyars,ani on Septenber 16, 1930, two other gin men came to this track in a Lincoln Sedan,sbowing their guns,and told Sam Grey and his partner Dave (last mme wkmowm) that the gun mn represen ted Manny Schrieber ani that these buyers would hear more about this matter later. On September 19, 1950, Mr. Irrgang returned from the auction at 27th & Ashland Ayeme, Chicago, with Mamy Scirieber and Tony Romano, andi on this trip Schrieber told Irrgang that Schrieber had taken Ferrera's plece in the juice grape racket and that Schrieber would later see Irrgang to mke a deal on the cars of juice grapes auctioned et the railroad tracks in Chicago, Illinois. On Septenber 21, 1930, Mark nateasen, a Chicago fruit broker, who hendled tbe Ferrera juice grape purchases: in 1929 on a joint accomt of Adarson and Ferrera, and hiamy Schrieber talked to Perry Stern, assistant to Irrgang and an auctionser in the United States Fruit auction Company at the Atcheson, Topelm end Santa Fe track on 2lst and Archer Streets, Chicago, Illinois. Lr. ‘Schrieber stated to Mr. Stern that the representatives of the juice grape growers fron Californis were caning into Chicago ami selling juice grapes at lower prices than the market price and that these representa- tives would be prevented fram doing this after Schrier had organized the juice grape merket. On the same afternoon at the Chicago ani Northwestern juice grape track, Tony Romano told Perry Stern substantially the statemnt as civen by Schrieber to Perry Stern.