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AS
LOGAN
SI expected, they both said in empha-
tic unison: "No, sir, we don't bet on the horses...” Mr E. E. Dale Shaffer and Mr Spencer Drayton, like most wise men who make their living from horse-rncing, don't do it by gambling.
"Apart from anything else,” said Mr Drayton, "I cuers It uld be unethical for me to ramble on the raves."
"Me too, in a way," said Mr Shoffer.
My Drayton, an ex-G-man, is heat of Amerien's Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau. which has the task of trying to keep the race tracks as honest and
racket-free 116 raffles 1 church hail.
A
Mr Shaffer is president of the Thoroughbred Racing Assaris-
GOURLAY
Enter the racket busters, taking a cool look
at our race tracks
"Last year out of 20,000 racès
Messrs Drayton and Staffer
enteul.
we had only 16 cases of doping, at back in righteous
"There are no big racketeers Honest citizens of the Turt.
is not necessarily 21 and combines in the doping Which racket now. We cleaned 'em all contradiction in terms. out.
"We take all kinds of precau- Gong," said Me Shaffer. "Every
winner is #rare
tented for
coping, and a few other horseś are tested at random.
race from start to finish and "Then we pholograph every from all angles so we can check any dirty business,
"We don't desirables-crooks, gangsters, or
outs on the tracks."
allow
Swindle
any un-
How and owner of the Detroit ATHILE I wondered how W many spectators would
race truck.
Successful
THEY look and sound
what they are.
Their spectacles отс thick ond heavy enough to be minia- ture binoculars.
Queen of the Beer
Clubs...
WHAT is a continent-
WH
al? And, what, for that matter is a beer club?
Northern renders will know be left on British' tracks if the answers fo these heavy this rule applied, Mr Dray- others, I'll explain,
sociologicat questions.
For the tan gaxed into his ico cubos recalling the biggest swindle he has uncovered.
They are the North's answer to television atrophy. Up there. the indomitable business men of
"I guess it was the forged Lancashire and Yorkshire have
It was
In the con-
totalisator tickets,
converted the empty cinemas and operating OF several tracks, music hells into beer clubs and And it was very well organised, continentals. Their girth would compare
"They had places near the with a retired thoroughbred's. tracks where they could turn Their voices, especially Mr out forged winning tickets 20 Drayton's, Te as toughly minutes after the race. mellow as old saddle leather, "They made thousands; they
Mr Drayton has expected high-pitched laugh like finally, if we hadn't picked a irrus tinkle.
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could have made a fortune
them up in Detroit.”
"But not on my track," said Mr Shaffer,
America
a
As part of on international racing methods, tour to study they have been visiting London. "You know, we-that's all the
They talked about the racing racing associations of subjects commen to most contribute 600,000 dollars countries. Doping and swindling, year to Mr Drayton's organisa-
"When I left the F.B.1. and tion. took this job 15 years ago things were not too good," said Mr Drayton. "There were a lot of rackets to bust.
Although I may it myself, think we've done pretty well.
I
"Then we have our own local security men, and altogether I guess we spend plout 10,000,000 dollars on cecurity.
"Ten million a year to keep things on the level."
to sit at tables
vaudeville artists.
the Queen of the Beer Clubs, the music
Now, let me introduce you to
Countess of the Continentals,
“But finally I learned how to reach them. Now, after seven months up there, I'm ready for anything.
In the first they offer only I should also tell you that there, you'll please them any- beer and snacks,
other drinks tinentals,
and she's reasonably proud of her where."
This js how meals are available. In both titles.
Miss London said feelingly. "They can be very tough they also expect the customers acquired them:-
Not so long ago Miss London, audiences. At first they didn't and expoze themselves to entertainment by a decidedly pretty 21-year-old like me. And they made it plain
blonde hair, they didn't. with decidedly
on a came to her name town
scholarship to study classical singing and opera.
After she completed a year's course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama she found there were few jobs for classical and operalle singers. So she took up pop singing.
She has my best wishes. But Manager England told her if she fails, the North (where "Go North me girl. Up to the she earned £100 a week) All
-{London Expren ServtoE).
Classical
She's called Donna London freal, game), Her manager is called Paul England, and she's
"I'm back in London, deler- mined to be a success In cabaret, and musical comedy and on records."
from Fredericton, New Bruns- provinces. Belt it out in the beckons beerlly.
wick, Canada,
beer clubs. If you please them
An intriguing question hangs over a little country
Is this
on the
Royal
by YVONNE BERLIN
way
A Swedish journalist now visiting Britain
WHAT would your feelings be if, in a crowded store, you spotted the Queen in the middle of a throng of shoppers, grappling with a load of parcels? Or if, on a rush-hour suburban train, you found your- self jostling against Prince Philip?
Would you be pleased--or shocked?
It doesn't happen here, of course. It can't happen. Every royal ex- pedition is meticulously arranged so that even when members of the Royal Family use public transport or visit the shops there shan't be too much rubbing of shoulders.
the
But it does happen in my country. It happens in Sweden.
It is not unusual to see king wandering onlably through the streets of Stockholm, raising his hat to the people who greet him with a slight bow,
And when the Swedish prin- cosses go to one of the bigger stores for shopping noboxy pays any special attention to them.
"There's Birgitta. Nice she's wearing today." the only reaction.
That
Sometimes, too, you can
10
the crown prince doing his duty as a Boy Scout on the IroMc patrol, gulding younger children
serom the streets.
Both a crown prince and
nt
Modest
$$
Say
Wrong
family
out?
nature of the association
be-
tween "the old king and him- self."
The book and money Court funds handed
of
bring OT1 accomplice in swindling a wealthy English born lady Mi Florence Stephens, aged 70.
Again all the republicans elanoured for the monarchy to end at the death of Gustav VI.
Then there were the repercus- sions of the romance between Princas Margaretha and Robin Douglas-Home.
The couple met, you may remember in a night club where
Robin was # planist. The romance did not survive the opposition of some members
suppressed; หลง
of
the Swedish royal family.
raised
In Britain, this affair ely a passing interest, and was quickly forgotten.
Bul Swedish reaction was far more emphatic.
Margaretha's mother, Princess
was paid from Sibylla, was named by the news-
10
to him
police officer.
Hallby, being, papers
by a senior opponent
05
the chlef
romance..
headlines.
depicted as
0
up
being of the Newspapers had big But the afair did no! end "Sibylla says "No","
She 15 there. Years Inter Mailby's wife went to the royal palace Victorian despot throwing complaining that they were in her hands in horror at the idea nced of more
princess money. In all, of her daughter, Haljby received £15,000.
narying sceneone who played
piamo in a night club.
11
There was a furore of public
I 1038 Haijby was sent to Germany; he was given a large debate alast matching that in
amount
promised stayed in quict,
of money and
Germany and
was
£40 a month if he Britain over the friendship kept between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend. The Koyal family emerged from it with diminished public esteern.
Refused
in Germany
Eruption?
almost
to
the
ever he opened Parliament, the
is 11
conduct this sort of
He didn't stay crown rested not on his head which might make you think and he didn't keep quiet. In but on a relice.
that the monarchy is irremov 1940 he was back in Sweden, The anti-royalista hai another
their propaganda ably established, that nobody in starting his demands all over chance for monarch, the present king, now Sweden would
a word again.
when, three years ago, the king 78, har lakers great enre not to against it.
Gustav Then King
V died, asked for his pay to be increased
£115,000 0 Now Haljby saw his big and last from
year give any grounds for critician. "ordinary man" role.
He assiduously plays the
chance and asked the Court for £143,000. a million Swedish crownzi (more Letters from republicans--
"Henast Democrat was Ic ts in cont
than £20,000). his office every morning
signature-appeareð ame, answering
But Gustav VI told the police favourite But you would be quite wrong
every newspaper. letters and mecting visitors. to assume that the Swedish chief that the Court did not in
that the tax- Each Friday he provides over u see
royal family is held in the same tend to pay Haljby another They demanded meeting of Ministers.
payers money should mo hinger universal esteem es the Royal penny. Family is ir Britain, or that He said there was no reason be paid to the king "for doing
on nothing." there are no people who feel to let the blackmailing go
So how stands Sweden's the country woull be better oft when his father wax dead, and without a monarchy.
so many people already knew marchy-the most democratie and least ostentatious of all about the case.
Finally Haljby was brought to monarchies--in this Bercely de- court. He was found to be not mocratic little country?
Certainly theru is no likell- ponsible for his actions, and was rest to a mental home. hood of the present papilar king Most people in Sweden re- being replaced by a President. farded the whole affair with But when he dies, there could be renewed eruption of the de- deep distaste.
But the anti-royalist faction mand for a republic, particu
35 were clamorous in their ver- larly if the heli-now aged nong hundreds of visitors. nble metallivity to public opinion. This situation bas
been tions that " degenerato royal too young to aztañe King Gustav V, the father of Some years
throne, and the country a Socialist contributed to by several affairs family" should make way for a ago
faced with the prospect of a the present king the is always newspaper complained that the which have jolted the monarchy referred to in Sweden as "the royal arrivals and departures at heavily, and provided fuel for
regency council. so democratic Stockholm's
hope old king") was
the Central
personally Station anti-royalist agitation. that when he came to the cost the taxpayers £70 a ume There was, for instance,
monarchy will survive." But if throne in 1987 he refused to be for a temporary staircase. The Halby case.
things work out the other way, crowned,
king immediately sald that ho In 1930
Next there was the "Husby an they may well do, people in a man named Kurt He word that a coronation and and the queen would
the Halfby amouneed that he was scandal." Two years ago Prince Swedes wont think the eat of all the attendant ceremonies pubile entrances would cost too much. So, whsen- cept on state occasions,
-Landon Express Service),
No crown
And he insists that the royal There la, in fact, a very active family spends modestly. Cer- and vocal republican element Anyone who wants to can go would dream of buying a dress
tainly onc of the princesses in Sweden. and see the king at the royal from one ot
Indeed, If a public opinion palace and have
the big fashion poll were taken A 16-minute talk. The king is always minges in Paris. They usually would find that hmong thore make their own clothes, or buy with definite views there te ling with His people, especially
them in ordinary shops.
probably at art exhibillons, where you
small enajority a
tomorrow you
can see him moving Informally The king also shows a rena rit – against the monarchy.
the
republic.
Emphatic
In future, ex- about to publish & book con- Carl Bernadotte, nephew of the the world has come.
taining allegations about the king, was acquiited on charges
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