CRIME: Lambs on the Altar

Only dishonest people have anything to fear from racketeers. This was long a maxim of New York City's Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine.

Last week, in a New York Federal court, Movieman Nicholas M. Schenck's whole attitude testified that the Commissioner did not know what he was talking about. Mr. Schenck, it appeared, had been an innocent, bleeding lamb in the hands of a pair of high priests of racketeering.

Mr. Schenck was first witness in the Government's case against George E. Browne, an A.F. of L. vice president* and head of the stagehands' union, and Willie Bioff, the union's West...

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