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| us?” the underworld ask. happened to the Protection paid for so : davishly ?" > 4 These questions are fying around “the underworld today, : This fear has taken such a hold upon them that in a panic they have resorted to'wholesale murders in an endeavor to purge their ranks of the suspected tats. “ing; are under suspicion.“‘The big-shots do not. foow where to go nor whom to trust. : “gover, panic-stricken, Word has gone “out that-no matter awhgt happens, ex- “pense is to be disregarded; no matter who is sacrificed, these G-fnen must be © stopped... {It is reported that Dutch ‘Schultz has been thrown to the Fed- ~_ erals ay a sop—Ed.) ~The very life of the underworld is‘ at stake. Their in danger of being dried | magazine has it on good authority. © Taking a leaf out of J. Edgar ‘Floover’s notebook, the head of the ‘péreau of investigation of the Depart- " derworld are trying frantically to save theriselves by forming : a setret Organ 2% . zation'pf theic own. ‘Thé, underworld i is going to ‘attempt nals. “They will: toe § honest, patriotic youn, : underworld can get | theng ag i DETECTIVE.-FICTION. WEEKLY © . “What has. Even close pals, friends of years’ stand- _ “ So now the underworld has t run to ratkets are giving them millions of del-" Tars every day.” That flow of millions” “3 ctissed. For two days: the argues ' derworld going to be? This is _ "what it's going to.be, and this ment of Justice, the leaders of the un- underworld. Not doubting’aie yg en oe wile hired to join the Department of. Justice "and every other police force where the —the G-men—will-be the underwortd, spies—the “X-men.” They. will not be crooks. themselves, “but they: will: ‘be paid. by the crooks. They will-be hi to tip off the underworld on raids, atid the identity of the Federal undercover: men who join the underworld to collect the evidence that destroys it.- mies The underworld, will put their spigs in strategic positions, just as the Fed- eral government put their spies-in tegicpositions before the ‘March as) raid. In ‘war it is-called counter-¢3- pionage: This is a wat ‘between sink society’ - 7 "Afraid thaf even the man they select: from within their own ranks’ to. Read’ pnb iapnrwanaiie sohgiarscin they dare not trust sich an it task to one of their own iki =» Ata meeting held in a Mid-westera city recently and attended by several the more important. leaders of the tne derworld, this plan was thoroughly dis-‘ They firially sted on aman from CRE: cago. This man had formerly ; bureau of his own, and. in times] _zens of the underworld. He has: retired. The underworld knew of ‘h personal integrity and ‘professional 1 putation. He was just the manifor th job, éven if he did not belong to 4 ference, “Your job, Jeviecs soutiet ieplonage sertick ab. “ome fo Tete yet the ats who,