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e | _ @ ~ 47 - of these individuals were brought out into the open they could no longer Successfully continue their nefarious activities which flourished in darkness. Up to this point they had depended upor. corrupt political domination and alliances in their local communities for protection, and now they were facing a greater power than theirs, a power which the greedy local politicians could not move or Suppress, At the beginnine of the Grand Jury numerous efforts were made through various channels to persuade the FBI to lessen the pressure that was being brought to bear and when all of this failed, negotiations for the admission of defeat and the Surrender of Buchalter were advanced,. The Federal Grand Jury which met at New York City in the Sumner of 1939, studied in detail methods of operation of RBuchalter and Shapiro, (The | ‘ p_Rales we cage iring Company were and the mec Y returne Co j 3 ; In the meantime underworld associates who were being forced to appear before the Grand Jury became insistent in making overtures to representatives of the FBI, and following a Sunday evening broadcast by Ar. Walter Winchell, at which time Mr. Winchell was authorized by the Director of the FEI, to publicly state that Buchalter's civil rights would be respected and maintained should he Surrender, a series of nerve-rackirg negotiations began. Telephone calls were received, asking carefully worded questions as to the outcome of the proceedings against Buchalter. After several days, the Director of the Federal Bureau cf Investigation issued an ultimatun that no further consideration would be given Buchalter unless he surrendered by 4 P. My, on August 24, 1939. Then came another phone call, instructing that the intermediary, Walter Winchell, "drive up to Proctor's Theatre in Yonkers", Before ‘reachirg the theatre a car loaded with Strangers drew alongside the automobile driven by Walter Winchell, One of the men got out, holding a handkerchief over his face, and instructed Winchell to go to the drugstore on the corner of 19th Street and 8th Avenue; to enter one of the phone booths and about nine o'clock Someone would come up to him ard tell him where to notify the Gien to meet him. Promptly at nine o'clock an individual approached ard stated, "go back in there and tell Hoover to be at 28th Street on 5th Avenue between 10:10 and 10:20,