Post by hunley2 on Jan 27, 2011 19:40:41 GMT -5
This article is one I found by accident researching Major Lanphier's background after I noticed his name in Mark Falzini's timeline of Lindbergh's staff and family around the time of the kidnapping.
It is Time Magazine; People June 26, 1933 at: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882171,00.html
A group headed by Major Thomas G, Lanphier, onetime flying instructor and later business associate (in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Col. Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June 13, 1932).
Read more: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882171,00.html#ixzz1CHd7t3SO
Major Lanphier was a personal friend of Lindbergh's. His son was a war hero that shot down a japanese rival in the 40's. Many of you probably already know this...but I had not read this material anywhere on the site so I thought for whoever hasn't read it or know about...I am contributing in some small fashion.
Obviously racketeering and plane pilots coincided quite frequently with one another. So maybe...Lindbergh working with the underworld was not someone else's idea after all.
Madden was a gangster who was originally from Yorkshire, England. His mother had left his brother and him there for a year to save for their trip overseas to come to America. His gang was the Gophers. He shot a couple of men in front of witnesses, but no one ever came forward to testify against him. He was making 200 dollars a day and had plenty of women on his arm by the time he was eighteen. He was shot 11 times once, and survived. But never told who did it. He and his gang took care of the problem themselves. Soon, his rival gang members started disappearing.
Of course Madden was a bootlegger during prohibition. He was in the process of hijacking booze from Big Bill Dwyer when Dwyer decided to partner up with him instead of fighting him. Madden bought the Club De Lux from famous Boxer Jack Johnson, naming it the Cotton Club. it was a White Only admission club with famous black entertainers. Madden got out of the bootleggin business and went into boxing business...of course many of his fights were "fixed."
Madden went to prison for a murder. He got twenty years. When Madden got out of Sing Sing, his old gang had broke up. He moved out west to escape police harassment and did some deeds there too....he opened Hotel Arkansas, which covered for many gangsters, ended up marrying the post master's daughter and lived out the rest of his days there. He died with an estimated worth of 3 million.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owney_Madden
Boxing Business and Italian Mafia Encroachment from 1931-35
I wonder if he and Jafsie knew each other through the boxing business? It surely is a small world...
It is Time Magazine; People June 26, 1933 at: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882171,00.html
A group headed by Major Thomas G, Lanphier, onetime flying instructor and later business associate (in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Col. Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June 13, 1932).
Read more: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882171,00.html#ixzz1CHd7t3SO
Major Lanphier was a personal friend of Lindbergh's. His son was a war hero that shot down a japanese rival in the 40's. Many of you probably already know this...but I had not read this material anywhere on the site so I thought for whoever hasn't read it or know about...I am contributing in some small fashion.
Obviously racketeering and plane pilots coincided quite frequently with one another. So maybe...Lindbergh working with the underworld was not someone else's idea after all.
Madden was a gangster who was originally from Yorkshire, England. His mother had left his brother and him there for a year to save for their trip overseas to come to America. His gang was the Gophers. He shot a couple of men in front of witnesses, but no one ever came forward to testify against him. He was making 200 dollars a day and had plenty of women on his arm by the time he was eighteen. He was shot 11 times once, and survived. But never told who did it. He and his gang took care of the problem themselves. Soon, his rival gang members started disappearing.
Of course Madden was a bootlegger during prohibition. He was in the process of hijacking booze from Big Bill Dwyer when Dwyer decided to partner up with him instead of fighting him. Madden bought the Club De Lux from famous Boxer Jack Johnson, naming it the Cotton Club. it was a White Only admission club with famous black entertainers. Madden got out of the bootleggin business and went into boxing business...of course many of his fights were "fixed."
Madden went to prison for a murder. He got twenty years. When Madden got out of Sing Sing, his old gang had broke up. He moved out west to escape police harassment and did some deeds there too....he opened Hotel Arkansas, which covered for many gangsters, ended up marrying the post master's daughter and lived out the rest of his days there. He died with an estimated worth of 3 million.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owney_Madden
Boxing Business and Italian Mafia Encroachment from 1931-35
I wonder if he and Jafsie knew each other through the boxing business? It surely is a small world...