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~_ Oo ~— Mr. Clegg ; 1 ue Coffey @ © Mr. Glavin Ladd_ v . Tracey ee . Acers . Carson___.. - Harbo . Hendon_____ . Mumford. . Starke Quinn Tamm. - Nease Mise Gandy = 2 agmea of ‘alk to Hoover, Who | bad - moved into. os Waldorf to be on tap. Je - After three weeks of this, Hoover got impatient. night he told Winchell, “If Lepke t surrender the next 24 hours, I'm’ going to give 7 men orders t “ " “shoot him on. sight.” - :. That did it. Next morning, Winchell got a’‘phone mes> _ sage.- “Take your wife’s car, the one with the fog She nad and be at Proctor’s ‘Theatre in Yonkers at a 700 toni : _ Walter's wife, er’s wile, Jane, th the only person he‘ had confid d visions of her husband ina ma a ” Ui fenitied “crossfire. That afternodn she scattered Sven - tacks on a the drive, hoping Walter would get a Hat - "the backed the car out of the garage. - - et But the tacks didn’t take. At a few minutes to ‘ever, ad stop od or 4 he A neht outside oor 4 : ge ease up a Cy man slip out of it and. ea pe oom terre -“elimbed in next to the columnist. “Drive back to town,”’ - itive figured it would be bettér to face the milder “~" be sie ee eee Med naan Sate here f helen rap. Besides, John Edgar wesn’t- hankering to try— ko see if there were any cops 8 you. $;0n the Governor's hat for size ‘Back in. Manhattan, his passenger “told Winchelt “to ; ' k. “Telepohne Mr. Hoover,” he said: “He's in Room ~ One night, a member of the black-Sngémail set sidled - pa at the Waldorf. ‘Tell him to be at 28th Street and « Walt inchell. “I hear tell,” he said a little.too Fpwoally, “that 1 Se ig ee bree ia to, your ifth Avenue, southeast side, between 10:10 and 10:20." friend Hoover, if he knew for sure he: “wouldn't: After the ph one call, Walter and the: iaterm : 5 roughed ap. Especially if there, owas a idelive to kdl] time. At 10:00, hic man ead “Stop...: “round he could trus m5 sey. +g Let me oot bere You ; fe to ciate Ghoti ails : f: Th perma inhal dy “of a ....Stop at treet. me @ favor.:Give ra it’s. The ‘newspa a ed the Le a sroma =. ~““foot.to Lepke. Tell him: ifs from me.” : pa cone. scoop. “Well, Yma pretty, trustworthy fellow,” . a pmae , "As Walter ‘drove up to the bit of enery which is . 9 In the summer of ’89, the law w was staging its biggte: rman bunt since the Lindbergh case. It was looking for -- “Lepke” Buchalter, , Enemy No. 1, who had ding out for two years. ‘of New York had rome a $25,000 price ng on him. ‘On-his-way-up prose-~- ator ‘Tom. Dewey wan . SLepke for extortion and 80 - - prnurders. John Edgar - Ftoover wanted. him just rootic and. “income-tax . ‘Assorted . ~Ploodhéunds awere breathing hard on - span land's , dirty . necks. : : ig -ranking hoods finally ~. Lepke. te d have to do.’ Waltery For the next three weeks, ‘a different ; an bétweer inade i dison Squaré Park, he saw the li on tep.. xgontact with the columnist every night. Walter, who <="of the Metropolitan Life Insurance buil eH - € ew. everybody, had never seen any of these side-talking _ Toe are up.to date,” he mented ig 5 , mabassadors before. Sometimes they'd out of door- - forward, to map off the the ignition, someone mide “Hell as : s, Sometimes. they’d get him on one of payphones a as q the Stork Club. Most of these’ powwows ‘were con. + ite was Lenke, ‘He bid. grown a | Groucho Mars. m between 4:00 and 6:00 in the morning. Winchell . PM DAILY us Page