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AY, AUGUST
WAR ON CRIME IN UNITED STATES
$1,000,000,000 RACKET IN NEW YORK CITY
Vast Outlaw Business Has Many Ramifications
New York, Aug. 9.
The Dewey inquiry this month will start building a million dollar microscope to trace an estimated U.S.$1,000,- 000,000 exacted yearly in the metropolis through vice and racketeering.
The question Thomas E. Dewey and his staff of in-
GRACE MOORE-A happy snapshot of the world-famous film and operatic star, taken at Cannes after her Londen Sexion at Covent Gardens, She is spending a short holiday in the Riviera before returning to the
United States.
vestigators will seek to answer is: Who gets this fabulon Race for
tribute?
It admittedly will be a tortuous safari through the jungles of New York vice and racketeering. Every trail will be examined for the possibility it may lead to the un- masking of an underworld king whose realm and riches would eclipse those attributed to prohibition barons in the twenties.
Whether this vast outlaw business is conducted by one super-organisation or by a group of unrelated gangs is not known. Equally uncertain is whether there exists a vice overlord who runs a one-man organisation. One anony- mous figure already has been visualised, but no evidence to corroborate a theory that such a super-leader exists has been produced.
Dr. Egbert had Dewey and his investigators may sling than many
But seize upon trivial incidents to de- made along similar lines: velop clues. For instance, reparts | Samuel Marcus, veteran counsel to have been heard that a police off the society, seized upon it to demand Letter after cial, intent on ferreting out vice, netion from the city, was transferred suddenly to a post letter poured into the office of far removed from the centres of Mayor la Guardia pointing out the vice. The picture of a politician in rapidity with which policy gamblers a friendly pose with n racketeer, made bond. On February 25, the now serving a prison sentence, may eity opened a quiet inquiry into the
bail bond business under Com be another lead for investigators.
missioner of Accounts Paul Blan- Lesser Lights Sought
shard.
A supposed underworld genius Is not the only quarry of Dewey, who
at 33 is facing a task of conducting
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a even
Richard
Policy Link Established The investigation had no more an Inquiry comparable to the Seastarted on its anticipated placid course than Blanshard discovered a bury investigation. For king must have his princes and marked connection between bail lesser lights of the criminal nobility bonds and polley. He called wit and New York City with its 7,000,-nesses on the policy phase. One of 000 inhabitants warming daily the first, debonair J. from borough to borough offers the (Dixle) Davis, counsellor to Dutch richest field in the nation for illicit Schultz, blew off the lid with enterprise. It is Dewey's task to Casual and conservative "estimate ferret out these rookeries of the that polley raked in at least U.S. underworld and bring the key men $100,000,000 in pennies, nickels and dimes, in New York City every to justice.
For this mission he has been year.
From that point on like a snow- given a special grand jury and a special term of supreme court by ball bounding down hill rose the Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, a corps clamour for a sweeping investiga- of Investigators and assurance oftion of racketeering and vice in all its forms and ramifications. Tam- adequate appropriations. The police department has promised full many District Attorney William C. co-operation and a squad of Depart-Dodge vowed that he would track ment of Justice men may be placed own any "big shot" criminals at at his disposal to aid, among other large and a March grand jury was things, in preparing income tax impanelled to conduct a broad in-
quiry. enses against racketeers who escape other charges.
Secret Hearings
Controversy Arises Early Almost from the first the grand Unlike the Seabury investigation, in controversy with the grand Jary and Dodge became embroiled Dewey will hold no spectacular jurors charging they were not being public hearings but will present given evidence whatever evidence he obtains to the politico-criminal alliance and Dodge on an alleged grand jury which is empowered to return Indictments. Thus it may evidence.
asserting there Was no such be months before the first fruits of dragging Inquiry during which a After several months of the inquiry become apparent.
Despite his comparailve youth grand jury asked its discharge and fow "amall fry" were indicted the Dewey is considered well qualified later appealed to the governor to for the post. He served as interim order a special inquiry independent United States attornoy for the im- of Dodge,
portant southern district of New
Dodge, one of the few Tam- survive the Fusion
York following the resignation of manyites to George Z. Medalic and before the landslide of 1938, was under severe appintment of Martin Conboy by editorial are when the governor President Roosevelt.
During the tenure in the U. S. Lehman made
stepped into the situation. And attorney's office Dowey directed the clear that unless Dodge acceded.to it unmistakably Intensive chase that resulted in the his wishes he would take the drastic conviction of Irving (Waxey) Wex-step of having the district attorney ler, one of the largest prohibition superseded by the state attorney bootleggers and was responsible for general. the indictment of Arthur (Dutch) Schultz Flegenheimer who is fre- George Z. Medalie and Charles H. Lehman submitted the names of quently referred to as Public Enemy Tuttle, both former U. S. attorneys, No. 1 of the metropolis.
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., son of Investigator la Republican the chief justice and Thomas Dewey is a Republican and has Thacher, former solicitor general of the endorsement of legal and civic the United States. All promptly associations although Governor Leh- declined but pointed out the man was loth to appoint him be availability of Dewey who was then cause of the magnitude of the task offered the job.
and the fact his name carried little Odds Not Favourable weight with the public. However, four prominent Republicans aug-Dewoy inquiry has only an oven Most observers bolove, the gested by the governor turned down chance of success, that a thorough the job urging that it be given to job, would have to tako several 'Dewey.
(Jears, Circumstances that led up to the perhaps no other American city are This may be the case; in -governor's nominations for special there so many forms of underworld prosecutor were directly traceable activity. But Dewey, convinced to a speech from the pulpit of a that a militant inquiry will make Flushing Church by the Rev. George him a national figure, is determined Drew Egbert, fighting prosident of to spare no efforts to achieve his the Society for the Prevention of sims.
Crime. The date was January 20, And ho knows that nothing would 1985, a day which may become his- serve to dramatize the investiga toric in the annals of metropolitan tion better than the uncovering of a crime.
modern robber baron-United The sermon was no more start: Press.
Atlantic Airways Begins
THE British Government
is at last moving on the question of bringing the North Atlantic with air ser- vices. A
Monkey Retains
English Hatred
This gigantic monument has been erected in Solseance, France, in com- memoration of the soldiers killed during the second battle of Marce July 1918.
£1,250,000 To Bring Stars To
From Boer War Britain
PHILADELPHIA.-Oom Paul
will not associate with other monkeys at the Philadelphia Zoo. He would rather sit melan- choly alone with his memories of the time when he was the pet of the late Boer president, Paul Krueger,
The baboon travelled through South Africa with Krueger dur- ing the war with the English. While in the front lines he was shot in the leg.
The only time Oom Paul shows any activity is when an Eng. lichman or anyone with a British accent approaches his cage. He then goes on a rampage, uttering his old war cry, "Wah-hoo!"- United Peres,
special committee of
in- Cabinet Ministers which clides Sir Philip Sassoon. Un- der-Secretary of State for Air. and
the of representatives General Post Office, was formed LEDUSSPATIU 22:19 about ten days ago to sift alli the data concerning suitable! routes and machines.
This move has been taken be- cause of the plans recently disclosed by concerns in this country which
SPANKED NAVY
CADETS
are planning to build huge flying One Of Them Was
boats for services between Liver- pool and New York.
· Prince Of Wales
Imperial Airways and Pan- American Airways have an under- How the Prince of Wales was standing about carving the Norththrushed by the guard of a Atlantic route up between them, train at Torquay was described but matters have moved slowly.
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OCEAN
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
By A SPECIAL FILM CORRESPONDENT
London, Aug. 8. NEXT week Mr. C. M. Woolf, who for five years has been one of the behind driving forces
the British film boom, will announce a produc- tion programme that will change the balance of world film power,
Eight weeks ago Mr. Woolf He resigned a was a sick man, £20,000-a-year job as joint man- aging director of the £15,000,- 000 Gaumont-British Corpora- tion on the ground of ill-health. He went away for the week-end. Felt bored and returned work.
recently by Mr. S. A. Cooper, | a ticket collector at Torquay.
More than twenty years ago, à train of Dartmouth naval cadets was drawn in at Torquay.
The guard, passing down the corridor, received a pen behind the car. The pea was fired from a pea-shooter.
Three routes are now being con- sidered by the Cabinet, one of which was rejected two years ago-theit Arctic route via Scotland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and Labrador to Canada and America.
This route provides "hops" of j not more than 800 miles.
The second route is the direct flight between Ireland and New- foundland.
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The guard entered the right carriage and locked the door.
He invited the culprit to own up. The half-dozen cadeta kept sflent! and so the guard methodically beat every cadet with his flagetick.
Not even then was the culprit re- vealed. Each lad took his punish- ment stoically.
Later the guard was told that one of the lads was the Prince of Wales.
Is south of the fog belt,
to
Within a week he had secured the interest of financial houses In the City to support his plans to build a £1,256,000 programme of names for the world m market.
Already he has put through
denl
with British and Dominions to erect a new £300,- 000 studio at Elstree early next year. It will stand adjacent to the British and Dominions lot. To
that studio will come the following `world famous artists during 1936.
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British opinion In Govern ment clrcles at present favours the fast landplane as against Anna Neagle is to be the star of the flying boat, emphasis being
an "all star" production, "Serpo- placed on the reliability of lette," to be directed by the British engines,
German. Karl Grune. Johnny Money will soon be attracted ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Nils from the public for the enterprising | Asther, Sir Cedric Harwlcke, and companies which are proceeding Lewis Stone will be in the film with with their plans for American fly-her. ing boats.
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