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- Detroit, Michigan April 21, 1945 GENERAL CRINE SURVEY, DETROIT FIELD DIVISION. OUTLINE + REPORT OF APRIL 14, 1945 A. ORGANIZED GANGS BATTLE CREEK ——— Detroit ganbler, heads well organized group of Italians in operation of Associates inclu Leon “trust case in Nee o corer watermelon market in Detrorte Grou rate ©» Club in Battle Creek and are closely ass with Bowery night club, Hamtramck, Michigan. has produce distributorship in petroit which supplies Battle creek market. Group secured Fort Custer and Percy Jones Hospital contracts by payoffs to mess sergeants and officers. Wa 2CeSinted vith Bureau fugitives DETROIT Detroit Purple Gang. of 1920s and 1930s clarified as entirely Jewish in makeup, yEast Side Gang of same period was composed of Italians with a few Greek and Armenian associstes. Many former members of both gangs still in Detroit and still loosely associated together. 1 EDDIE-SARKESIAN, gambler and muscle man murdered in Detroit in 1944, alleged to have been fingered by 1s} ‘RAIDER, former Purple: Gangster. Murder still unsolved. ft b f * or gambling franchise in downriver section eC) We: gang associate arrested by Highland - Park police with 150 bottles of mes in car, ueétioned by Agent le . and revealed dissention witH former associate, -transports Illinois liquor from Chicago to Detroit ; week].y; places 100 to 150 cases of liquor each week on a commercial truck 4 with cooperation of driver, follows truck to Detroit with showgun in his cary unloads truck on outskirts of Detroit and takes liquor to hideout in _