1953-07-04 — Page 11

SECRETS BERMUDA

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1953.

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RACKET by NUMBERS

THE

The tax men pounce

on the new Capones

New York. 'Ewenty-imur numbers are drawn THE wheel has come fui from a drum at the headquarters

of a policy "wheel." circle. Four of the ve

They are put down in one of Manno brothers, lieutenants two columns as they come out of in the Chicago gang king. the drum. If your three numbers dom that stems from the Al are in one of the columns of 12 numbers you get 100 dollars for Capone days, have been in-

two of every dollar you bet. dicted by a grand jury on your numbers come up you get

charges of tax evasion-the 10hematically the chances of same sort of charge that winning are one in 6,784. There finally put Capone in gaol, are two drawings a day. You Yes, it is a wheel all right can bet as little as a nickol (4d.). for the big money the Manno Chicago oficials estimate that brothers have been naking the

take in more than

in any city, money. And in Chicago money

is real)

of that nature can spell trouble.

the £35,000 a year.

recently comes from "numbers" or "policy" rucket, That, organised in tightly cutroiled groups known as "wheels."

The racket works this. wayt- Botting mon plek three numbers between one and 78.

The testament of people who should know

YOU

WANT

TO KEEP YOUNG

by

Anne Scott-James

-OW is it that some people can live

H

richer, more, creative

lives than

il

others? Are they born with quota of energy? Or have they trained themselves to live at. a satisfying pace? If so, learn from their success?

more what can WE

I have been spending some time talking to men and women of outstanding achievement, i nave been trying to pin them down to facts and details on how they run their lives. How much you diet? sleep? What about alcohol? Should How much holiday?

tu

I have been putting these questions people as far apart us Elizabeth Arden and Sir Simon Marks....as Richord Stokes, M.P., and Maurice Chevalier.

I find that these men women fall, broadly, into two

groups. There are the people of

public Uusiness

and

on his own feet.

affairs,

whose genius lies in organisa-

Gen.

writing, painting,

and the uther arts.

Pura Air In His Lungs

start at 4.0 am.

One operator "retired" after the window of his car was shattered by guntire. Another was kidnapped and held until his family paid £35,000 ransom.

Streamline

VE years ago in stepped thei

American men aged 45 to 35,

or.

ניימן

But they are not the kingpins. Behind them is the suave gure of Tony Accordo, who was

"Enforcer the Capone's ganiser of the hoodlums secting the Capone network-and who took over the gang business. Today he is a streamlined mid- century gang chief. His River Forest home in a select suburb is Ta 10-5

10-room Southern colonial

with graceful white

learned from Capone's fate to pay income tax On the physical side he has and keep books for the Internal itis set-up always been a stranger to the Revenue Bureati, minor ailments. He has suffer-hires expensive accountants to ed much less than his noinhoudit the books.

colds and flu, bours from

In the 1948 books of the Erie- "Wheel" there is this though he does not pretend to Buffalo any magical Immunity.

entry under “salaries, fees, com- He has never had A missions or other compensation." Though he likes simple food,

condition-To Anthony will headache. The only

Accardo, special is not a fanatie. He occasionally order a good meal that occasionally slows him up service 278,657 dollars 80 cents. in a

Accordo declared this in his restaurant "to get iny is extreme heal. Owing to the

feels Bincome tax

Manfully return. He never stule, heavy air, he money's worth,"

little off par on the Equator counts calories or goes on

the Mannos paid their taxes. Today General Critchley Is They kept their books in an just on 04. Aflera fetime of immense safeslembedded in con- simple living he is still a man crete surrounded by ten feet of outstanding vitality, ready high barbed wire. and able to conquer fresh ter-

health clinie for ten days, where they lived on four oranges each it clay, and played a daily round of golf.

of the Even the director clinic said they could not do it. But they did.

X

Flict

And he doesn't want to push people into doing what he does -himself. He believes in It. He knows it works. But he also knows that every man must ritory. work out his own salvation,

His fourth rule: Limit

A CHALLENGE your

drinks. The general drinks

alcohol, but only between

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Protection?

THEY had faith in their books, so much so that when Gov- ernment offlcers called for them

S most of the world knows, they ordered their hoodlums to

and 8 pm.. when he downs he was struck by one of help the officers load them in a

his glass as punctually us if the few illnesses of his life a lorry.

a conscientious barman were calling out: "Time, gentlemen, please,"

THREE GLASSES

specially HE

much and from the Argentine to Coy your belt you can last

Jon. Sometimes trekked longer than the other mon.

His usual sleeping hours are Sometimes

from 10 p.m. un 6.30 or 7.0. he flew in his own plane. He looks like a man of ae- though it has always been his

well-habit when he has are the creative-tion; tall, upright, and. There austs-people who live by built. He talks like a man of important brain work to do, to

The theatre, action; the pop-pop-pop of his

In his younger days as conversation speeding up Into a rhythmic flow when he gets cavalry officer he used to go to

early, at enthusiastic, like a high-power- bed particularly

m., one day a week. engine gathering speed.

Beatr

If he wants to, he can fall The general has a portion of inherited energy; his asleep at any time, even la a father was crack sportsman crowded room. This is partly

But he

Eue to his mental attitude aiiri- butes most of his vitality-his an ability to relax quickly and he Bays the ability to cram every day with completely, for

Ca

on

To begin with, today I pro- use to start with a close-up Study of General Critchley.

GIVE HIM AIR DRIGADIER-GENERAL A. C. CRITCHLEY, CMG, CBE, DSO, was born 5,000 f above

level

windswept Canadian ranch in Calgary.

Accustomed from birth to ki his infunt lungs with the pure, keen air of the prairies, he soun Required o lung expansion of peculiar

With power. breath he draws, he takes on board a far-above-average loud of his favourite fuel-fresh air.

source of energy a stimulus to work and a support in physical endeavour-he rates food. drink, above air for tonies, pills or tobacco,

General Critchley follows an unusual system of living which is designed to keep him ning fast in top gear for every waking minute of his life.

every

ed

and a traveller.

he

pro-

says.

0

without n person

of it induce

few weeks ago, as a result of How come the indictment? It which he has lost his sight.

got

allegedi that the топет

Certainly they paid the money out. But Government agents say the money went for police protec- ion so that the illegal numbers racket could go on.

To some men a mortal blowine Manno boys say they paid To him, a challenge.

to gamblers was not paid to As I took his arm to lend

gamblers. the him across the room, the TE Urinks whisky and soda

crustlly: "Now, of only-from one to three general said course. I've

to lentn....to glasses, according to his com- live like

ពន this,"

though pany. He never drinks wine or speaking of rheumatism, or the mixed drinks,

useful private income, Apart from alcohol, he drinks loss of

of his A fine vindication: many pints of water.

system of life, Those are his general rules of life: More uit sleep, water; less food, no pills.

Then I asked him about his routine

for work. How he manage for So coveral many years to carry full-time jobs on his shoulders. and at the same time to remain

Vid

(He

A

am: Reading and writ- ing reports. (Never to be

done nt 'night, which the

judgment is impaired).

a full programme of work and sleep habit must be cultivated sporto his faithful adherence by the brain as well as by the 10 a few simple principles. body.

It is partly due to his habit first-class sportsman? His first rule is fresh air in-

was still winning international Get fresh air of deep breathing, for air in golf championships at the uge aid out. side and

duces sleep. He wakes up from of 49, when the war put into your

the sleep immediately alert, like a breathing deeply all

brake on first-class sport). "by

Here is a typical day's unie“ time. Practise deep breathing watchdog. No drowsy yawning.

IT'S EASY

1able:-- consciously until it becomes an

4-6 unconscious habit."

He recommends this

dele Howe certain antidote

I the konek breathing as a

I asked him, thinking 7-9 am: Round of golf. against fatigue. If you're un- trained in regular deep breath sleep?

round of the small Ing, take I few slow, deep

veridian green sodium amytal 10 breaths at the end of a tiring capsules that lives by my own day.

bed and by so many others.

Give up HEAT OR COLD

smoking tobacco.

clogs

lungs. thie EXTERNALLY, he believes Breathe deeply for two or three. And the system works, The that the air should circulate minutes before getting into bed. has been one of the as freely as possible round the And drink two glasses of cold Kening med of action of body. "Let the air flow round water-the best coporifle in the this century.

10 yourself IN SPORT, he was an Inter- you, keep the pores of your skin world."

national

at polo,

badminton,

WRC

AB

run-

box of

open and allow running, sweat.

But

But he admite-that--occu-

slonally his

for gift

falling

m Gets to the office in fighting form.

1 m. Lunch.

con-

5,0. Leaves the office. (This

time, naturally, varies siderably. He never stays n minute after what's

bo to done is done. He delegates everything possible, never works for the sake of work-

ing though he is capable of working very long stretches when necessary).

Ice hockey, and Wear as few clothes as pos- asleep (which he shares with 6.0. Round of golf. one of the best known alble, whatever the weather. Sir Winston Churchill and the 8.0, Dinner, gulfers of our time.

Don't muffle up in winter, be- late Lloyd George) has caught 10.0. Beu,

A SOLDIER, he Was Д cause the more clothes you him out. brigadier-general at 27, the wear the colder you'll feel. Once as a young subaltern, Youngest

gest general in the Bri- “Let the wind whip up your an ADC to his general, he tish Army; and he won the circulation. DSO in World War I.

the general's wife. Sitting out lost his promotion as a conse quence.

SIMPLE

warmth and energy.”

NEVER WORRIED

WING, he believes, to hts

It will give you made up a four at bridge with system of life, his passion AS A MAN of affairs, he has The general wears the sam as dummy, he fell asleep and

always been counted an or- clothes ganising genius. MAN OF ACTION

THE was responsible for

H

FOOD

the

for simplicity, General Critch- winter and

freo sum-

loy has been singularly mer; he never descends to an

from the two evils which sap undervest. He has camped near

vitality of most men and the Arctic Circle al

below,

women: the mentat evil of ant worked In the sweltering

worry and the physical evil of the Yuma Valley in America with is third rule: Eat less food, minor aliments.

The general has never bean ground training of all air the thermometer showing 120, He eats two meals a day,.

break- worried by worry. He never crews in World War II. He is without feeling undue, discom- lunch and dinner; no

the fort in either place. the senior

olid carries his business round with executive of

fast or tea, not even the In the His biggest cement group

second rule is sleep. glass of orange juice or cup of him in his head after hours," world. He founded and built He is fanatical about it. Al- coffee.

letting it nag at his own brain Ho likes his food to be

family as and depress his up the greyhound racing busi- most the only time in his life

und ness in. this

country

eats friends. when he has

Hone

through simple as possible. He

deadly large quantities of vegetables He was Director-General of physical hell was one

Even with big deal bend- BOAC for four years until the week in Ypres salient and fruit, not much butcher's ing, or a great national scheme says sardonically) the. Socialist when, with the Germans with ment. His favourite dish: ham in the balance, he is free from Government decided to

anxiety. merge. In earshot, he kept swake for and exten.

"Ive sheer common

sense," the four vast, railway under 72 hours, propping his eyelids He believes that most people takings into one and cut up open with matchsticks towards eat for too much; that a cut in he says. "Try it yourself this

and way. Face up to the the diet resis the Inside

·worst the budding air travel Industry the end. Into three..

He sleeps long hours. He can makes for more energy.. not that can possibly happen. De- AS ADVENTURER, Le has sleep at any time of day. He ca

cide what you will do, if that frozen in the for North-West con sleep in any conditions. He To prove it, and to win a bet worst thing happens..

Canada. Awollared in believes you store sleep, Like u that he was tight, he, and forget until 114. time - Africa, travelled the world littery. "With Bleep under friend once went to a famous make the next move."

tho

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