18 Mar 1938
State Police
The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.
What Price Safety!
Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
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Lionel Royce Morris Zuto
George Houston Foreman Cooper
John Wray J. Z. Wray
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