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EAR has seized hold of the un- F derworld—sta'rk, maddening fear. Their houses of graft, crime, and bribery have crashed down about their ears. For the first time since Al Capone put crime into the class of big business, the under- world has learned that their tainted dollars cannot buy them immunity. Bribery, perjury, and machine-guns are now of no avail. There is a new force flung against them by the Fed- eral Government which they cannot understand. It at least has put the fear of God into their hearts. The underworld is faced by an or- ganization which they have .dubbed the “ G-men ”—the agents of the U. S. ,crime. A Week Ago the Under- world Made a Startling Proposal to a Man from Chicago. “Ten Grand a Week Is Okay,” Said the Nation's Biggest Gangsters, “if We Get Results. We Have Got. to Destroy the _ Department of Justice? , Department of Justice. The G- men are incorruptible. The G-men place honor and service to country above price: They are men who have shown that they are not afraid to die in carrying the war into the camp of In the years immediately following the start of Prohibition, when that law placed unlimited capital at the disposal of the underworld, the leaders were '