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In response to your letter, I should like to say that the officers 6f the Canadian National Railways are alâ€" ways conscious of the impOrtant part the weekly newspapers play in Can- adIian affairs and that we fully ap- preciate the keen interest the memâ€" bers of your association take in the welfare of the National Railways System. We have noticed with sat- isfaction that you have extended. this to Canada’s newest enterprise, the Transu-Can-ada Air Lin-Cs. Dear Editor I hope that the weekly neWSpapel-s will continue their valuable work of fostering a spirit of unity through- out the Dominion and‘ encouraging Canadians to work for steady imâ€" provement in conditions by avoiding useless controversies which can only tend to retard the nation’s progress. é”--- THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th, 1939 E York Auto Wreckers WMWMQWQGMO aooommooemoomoooo 4 Phone 6189 Yonge St. ‘ Willowdale 218 Newtonbrook j Branch, Aurora 0 9 “IF IT’S FOR A CAR 0 TRUCK WE HAVE IT” 2 . “Tony Saves ’ou Money” : -memommwoomoumm HARRY R. ROSE Specially written for Canadian Weekly Series of Letters From Distinguished Canadians on Vital Problems Affecting the Future Welfare of Canada 40 Yonge 81., Richmond Hill Teleplmw HA Office Hoursâ€"Every Monday and Thursday Afternoon and by appointment Toronte Offices: 100 Adelaide Street West -o.«.o.o-n.o- .( .1»-0.1.0.n.0.0-~-.0.0-u- A Better Place In Which to Live and Work ROSE & HERMAN Barristers-A t-Law Above all, I hope you will carry on a racket rap your discouragement of those pessiâ€" mis-ts who" seem to have no other contribution to make than the fore- cast of disaster. The things to be advocated! today, it seems to me, are the avoidance of anything which might cause sectional, racial or any other form of strife, and] the posiâ€" tive qualities of sane optimism and hard work. These, I think you will agree, are Canadian characteristics. It is not enough to recognize them and be proud of them; we must maim- tain and extend‘ them. I got a c102 Maybe, 1’11 0 I’ll slice off é good behaviow ain’t many t knock them c singin’. I w All right. 1 said so, didn tied’ in with The jury be‘l1 it all came sure I knew his trusted a1 With kind regards and all good wishes to your membership and‘ to yourself, I am, Newspapers Association Chairman and» President, Canadian National Railways. Yours faithfully, S. J. HUNGEIRF'ORD, LOUIS HERMAN 0900900 “9090.” what Oh, I tho like cigar eight that? and : do f0 2 I By {Marie Brett-Perring : WWWOWMOMOM” By Charles McGuirk I tell you right off the sleeve it ain’t gonna do you no good to bring me down here from the Pen to testâ€" ify before the Grand- Jury. Not even if you knock ten years off my stretch. I’m a five-toâ€"ten loser on a racket rap. I got a clean record- for two years. Mam... T’H nnlv rivn the five. Maybe tate‘s attorney. I never saw Marty Crux commit any murders. I never heard! of him committin' any mur- ders. And] I never heard of him plannin' any murders. So what‘s the use of askin’ me? How many guys did Marty mur- der this time? Only one! Why, that iain't a crime. It’s a misdemeanor. iFor the six years I was tied in with ԤWOMOWOOOWMOWN«M¢ 000’ W ‘ O I got a clean record. for two years. Mayib-e, I’ll only do the five. Maybe I’ll slice off a couple more years for good behaviour. I ain’t sayin’ there ain’t many things I wouldn’t do to knock them off. But one of them is singin’. I won’t sing. All right. Sure I’m guilty. A jury said so, didn‘t it? And sure, I was tied’ in. with the commission racket. The jury believed! that, too, because it all came out in the trial. And sure I knew Marty Sharles. ‘I was his trusted auditor. I kept his books. I handled the dough that pass-ed: through him» andy the mob. Didm’t you know that? Well, get a manuseript of the testimony in my trial. You’ll find it all down in black and white. What’s that? You can’t promise me anything, if I tell you all I know about Marty Crux? Well, ain’t, that just too bad?! I’m to sing and then I don’t get nothin’ for sing-in’. Betâ€" ter call the Wagon. I’m ready to go back. No. I won’t answor your ques- tions! What do you think I am, a rat? You’re wasting: your time. You can get my record from readin’ the testimony in the trial. K. 0'. Shoot. But wait a minute. What’s the rap against Marty Crux? Income tax evasion? Puttin’ the slug on someâ€" body? What did he do? I mean. what is he suppOSedJ to have done? Oh, murder. Just murder? Why, I thought it’d be something serious. Why, Marty commits murders just like the State’s Attorney smokes cigars. ‘One after each meal and eight at nights. Didn’t you know that? Marty’s Public Enemy No. 1 and‘ all hig' public enemies have to do four murders a day just to keep up their standin‘. But get this, Mr. ‘I‘HE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, UNTARIC THE LIBERAL SHORT STORY THE SINGING LESSON him, he- beat one murder rap 3. year. In 1935, there was fibre-e. He beat them am. He had an iron-clad alibi for each of them. “Who was the guy this time? Oh, you won‘t tell me. So you won’t talk, eh? Well, then, Why the hell should I talk? Sune, I’ll answer the routine questions. Let me have them. My name's Eddie Flack. I’m 28. Single. I was born on the South Side. Twentyâ€"eighth and Prairie. When the neighbourhood was. re- spectable. My old man had' a good business when we were kids. We? Oh, my brother and me, my kid bro- ther, Danny. Well, the old man had a good neighbourhood grooery busi- ness until the chain stores froze him out. Then my mother died: and he lost his guts. He started du'iflkin’ and' he. died, too, when I was 15 and Danny 11. Who took care of us then? Well, my Aunt Aggie was supposed to. ‘Aunt Aggie called) herself an acâ€" tress but what she was» was a bur- lesque artist. She did! a strip tease until she got a tire around her be'lt ‘ line and then she stepped back down into the chorus. She got the tire from booze. Aggie liked to h’ist them. About the time she got us, ibooze got her. Well, me and Danny were a couple of lonesome kids, I guess, and no- body took much care of us so we had to take care of each- other. That slapped it all on me because I was the old‘esrt of us two, see, and Danmy was just a kid. . q Danny wasn’t much good at school. He didn’t like it. I did. I liked it because it was warm in winter and I liked arithmetic. I was pretty good at it. Danny stayed: in one class so long that he had a heard in the sixth grade. He never‘got past it because he did a hou-se-«breakjn’ job and‘ got picked‘ up for it and went to the reformatory for a couple of u I finished grammar school and one night Aunt Aggie- rolled a drunk for a couple of 0’s amfl I g‘loomed fifty of it off her whille she was drunk and: I lammedl out of there and took up a business course. year's I got a job and then another one and then another one. You know how tough it is for a kid to place himself. I wouldn’t want to live that part of my life- over again. It was tough. I was! so damn loneSOme. I didn’t have nobody but Danny and Danny was in stir. I used, to go out and see him every week and help him count the days until he’d be sprung. I had’ a calendar in my room and I used‘ to cross each date off with a lead pencil. When Danny came out, he knew a lot more than he did» when he went in. He‘ knew how to pick any lock they ever invented. He knew how to cut out a pane of glass so you couldn’t hear him if you were in the next room. I missed him like hell when he got picked up again to do a three-year bit for burglary. That was about two years after he got sprung from the reformatory. Danny’s one swell kid. He never failedI to get up every visiting day to see me since I’ve been in stir up to this week. I’m kind of worried about the guy. I’m afraid he’s eith- er sick or in the can because noth- ing else would keep him away from me on vjsitin’ day. Do you know whether he’s in the can, Mr. State Attorney? He ain’t? erl, then he must be sick. Is he sick? He ain’t? Then what the hell’s the matter with the little â€"â€" the little punk? If I had him here now, I’d punch him in the mouth. Well, when Danmy finished ms stretch and came out, he told me he was through house-breakin’. The percentage was against him, see. He had' a record’ and he’d} met a guy in stir that knew Marty Crux. The guy was goin’ to speak to Marty about him. I told him to lay off Marty because he was one tOugh baby. The newspapers said‘ he was pretty handy with a gat and» I didn’t want any murder rape in our famv- il‘y. Danny just laughed at me. He told me you could wmk for a guy without committin’ murder. What the gee in stir was figurin’ for him was drivin’ Marty’s own personal car. He needed guys around him car. He needed guys around h1m he could trust absolutely. Well, I didn’t see nothin’ wrong with that. I knew that Danny would carry a gat, but I knew that ilf he used‘ it it would.l be to defend him- self and Marty; So I felt pretty Danny finished his Marty's bodyguard So everything worked- [out Swell, see. Because when. Danny had been workin' for Marty about a year, he came to me and told? me Marty want- ed' to see me. So I went and; Marty offered Ire the job as his: auditor. Certainly I took it. It paid a. C a week. And' whoever heard: of a bookkeepin- getting a hundred: a week? Now, listen, Mr. State’s Attorney. I ain’t spillin’ any of the business Marty Crux did. That’s: confidential. That’s as sacred to me as a client’s confession wouki be to a mouth- piece. You cfio understand it? A yOu don’t want me to? Well What do you want? You want Marty Crux for the killing of Tony Barrad'ino and Mike‘ Scuffo? Listen, I don’t know anyvl thing about them bump-offs. Listen, I was just a bookkeeper. A11 1 know is that Danny had nothin’ to do with either of them. How? Why,.be- cause Danny told: me himself. He told me who really did those jobs. And; it wasn’t him. He told me when he was drunk. That was Danny’s only trouble. When he got a"little lit, his tongue wagged. That’s why ;he hardin ever took a d'rink. I don’t know who killed: Barradiino i and Scuffo. But whoever killed them did a good job because they were a couple of rats, see. They were Marty Crux’s own men and they got playin’ with A1 Sponzi and his mob and Al and Marty were deadly enemies. The way I get it, Marty checked up on them and found out they were crossâ€" ini’ him. That’s the way I get it. You say the way you get it is that Danny knocked) off Barradino and Marty did the job on ‘Scuffo himself? Listen, that ain’s 50. Dan- ny told me different. What makes me believe that? Why, because Dan- nly told me and Danny never told' me a Lie in his life. I don’t know anyâ€" thing about Marty doin’ the job, but I don’t believe it. Marty didn’t have to do his own killin’s. That’s what he paid his bodyguard for. And I din’t knlllW anything abiurt Marty be cause he ratteds in me when I was picked up on this racket rap. He got me a bad mouth-piece. The way I figure it, he wanted me out be- cause he thought maybe I knew too much. m~11 quuu. Look, Mr. States Attorney. Tell that guy to quit takin’ these notes because I want to ask you some- thing. Thanks. Look, that kid bro- ’ther of mine is all right, see. Ile’s I ‘tryin’ to go straight. What? Get my coat and hat on? Why? Where are we g-oin‘? Back . to the can? Oh, just up the street a little ways. O.K.! It‘ll be nice- to get out in the street again. Stir’s pretty confinin’. O.K., Copper. Snap on: the bracelets andI let’s go. Boy! Is this good to be riding in a high-pmveredi car again! The citiâ€" zens certainly give you coppers a break. If you had to make it your- self, you couldn’t thumb a ride in ,one of these jobs. What’s this place? The morgue? What the hell 'do you want to stop at the morgue ‘for'? Sure I’m comin‘. What else lcan I do? But I don’t like it. I =don‘t like morgues. And I don’t like dead people. Maybe that’s why rI never fooled with: a gun. Say! It’s cold in here. Hey, do we have to go through the whole I damm building? What’s those thin-gs? Listen, I want out of here! want any part of this? Sure I‘ll come ower and look at a guy. But I tell you right now I won’t identify him. Why should 1‘? Even if I know him. Listen, Mr. State’s Attorney, I told you I was no rat. nanny! It’s Danny! My kid bro- L Lulu 'yvu . n-.- Danny! It’s Danny! My kid bro- ther! Ohâ€"svwcebâ€"God! what’d I do, faint? Wherevâ€"Danny. And Mart-y Crux killed; him! Talk? Sure I’ll talk. Marty Crux killed Tony Barâ€" radvino. And he killed’ A1 Sponlzi. And he killed‘ Jack Spi‘nster and“ Mike Larredo and Moss Peters and Charlie Jinns. He killed them him!â€" self, see. Because he is a killer. A louse. I see it all now. He bumped Danny ~because Danny talked. And now I’ll talk. 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