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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-| vestigators will seek to answer is: Who gets this fabulous tribute?

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935.

GRACE MOORE-A happy snapshot of the world-famous film and operatic star, taken at Cannes after her London Season at Covent Gardens. She is spending a short holiday in the Riviera before returning to the

United Stater.

Race for

It admittedly will be a tortuous safari through the Atlantic

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 ling than many

But seize upon trivial incidents to de-mnde along similar lines. velop clues. For instance, reports Samuel Marcus, veteran counsel to have been heard that a police of-the society, seized upon it to demand clal, intent on ferreting out vice,nction from the city. Letter after was transferred suddenly to a post letter poured Into the office of far removed from the centres of Mayor La Guardia pointing out the vien The picture of a politicing in rapidity with which policy gamblers. On February 25, the racketeer, made bond. a friendly pose with now serving a prison sentence, may city opened a quiet inquiry into the

bail bend business

Com- be another lead for investigators.

misaloner of Accounts Paul Blan- shard..

Losser Lights Sought

A supposed underworld genius is not the only quarry of Dewey, who

at 33 is facing a task of conducting

under

Policy Link Established The investigation had no more an inquiry comparable to the Sea-started on its anticipated pincid bury investigation. For even a course than Blanshard discovered a king must have his princes and marked connection between bail leaser lights of the criminal mobility bonds and policy. He called wit- and New York City with its 7,000,-nesses on the policy phase. One of debonair J. Richard the first, 000 Inhabitants swarming daily from borough to borough offers the Dixie) Davis, counsellor to Dutch richest field in the nation for illicit Schultz, blew off the lid with a casual and conservative "estimate enterprise. It Is Dewey's task to 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.

sear.

For this mission he has been

From that point on like a snow- given a special grand jury and ball bounding down hill rose the special term of supreme court by

clamour for a sweeping investiga

Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, a corpstion of racketeering and vice in all of investigators and assurance_of its forms and ramifications. Tam- atlequate 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 down 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. cases against racketeers who escape other charges.

Secret Hearings

Controversy Arises Early Almost from the first the grand jury and Dodge became embroiled Unlike the Seabury investigation, in controversy with the grand Dewey will hold an spectacular jurors charging they were not being public hearings but will present given evidence on an alleged whatever evidence he obtains to the politico-criminal alliance and Dodge grand jury which is empowered to asserting

such return indictments. Thus it may evidence, After several months of be months before the first fruits of dragging inquiry during which a the inquiry, become apparent. few small fry" were indleted the Despite his comparative youth grand jury naked its discharge and Dewey, la considered well qualified later appealed to the governor to for the post. He served as interim order a special inquiry independent United States attorney for the im- of Dodge.

there

Was

no

portant southern district of New Dodge, one of the few Tam- York following the resignation of manyites to survive the Fusion George Z. Medalle and before the landslide of 1933, was under sovere appintment of Martin Conboy by editorial fire when the governor President Roosevelt.

stepped into the situation. And During the tenure in the U. S. Lehman made it unmistakably attorney's office Deway directed the clear that unless Dodge ncceded to 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) Lehman submitted the names of Schultz Flegenheimer who is fre- George Z. Medalle and Charles H. quently referred to as Public Enemy Tuttle, both former U. S. attorneys, No. 1 of the metropolls.

Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., son of Investigator Is Republican tho 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

declined but associations although Governor Leh-

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, Most observers belleve four prominent Republicans aug- Dewey inquiry has only an even gested by the governor turned down chance of success, that thorough the job urging that it be given to job would have to take several Dewey,

years. This may be the case; in Circumstances that led up to the perhaps no other American city are governor's nominations for special there so many forms of underworld prosecutor were directly traceable activity. But Dowoy, convinced to a speech from the pulpit of a that a militant inquiry will make Flushing Church by the Rev. Georgo him a national figure, is determined Drew Egbert, fighting president of to spare no efforts to achieve his the Society for the Prevention of sims,

the

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 įtion better than the uncovoring of a crime.

modern robber baron.-United The sermon was no more start-Press.-

Airways Begins

is at last moving on the THE British Government question of bringing the North Atlantic with air ser-

vices.

of A special committee Cabinet

In- Ministers which cludes Sir Philip Sassoon. Un- der-Secretary of State for Air, of the and representatives General Post Office, was formed

about ten days ago to sift all the data concerning suitalde routes and machines.

This move hna been taken be- cause of the plans recently disclosed by concerns in this country which

Monkey Retains

English Hatred

This gigantic monument has been erected in Solence, France, la còm- memoration of the soldiers killed during the second battla of Marne July 1918.

£1,250,000 To Bring Stars To

From Boer War Britain

PHILADELPHIA.-Dom

Paul

will not associate with other monkeys at the Philadelphis Zoo, He would rather sit melan- choly alone with his memories the time when he was of the put of the Inte '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 abot in the log.

The only time Oom Paul shows any activity is when an Eng. lishman or anyone with a British accent approaches his cage. He then goes on a rampage, uttering his old war cry, "Wah-hool"— United Press,

SPANKED NAVY

CADETS

ure planning to build huge lying One Of Them Was

boats for services between Liver-¡ pool and New York.

Prince Of Wales

How the Prince of Wales was thrashed by the guard of a

Imperial Airways

Pan- and American Airways have an under- standing about carving the North Atlantic route up between them. train at Torquay was described but matters have moved slowly.

BRITISH ISLES

AFRICĂ

OCEAN

Rio de Janeiro

Buenos Aires

recently by Mr. S. A. Cooper, ticket collector at Torquay.

More than twenty years ago, train of Dartmouth naval cadets was drawn in at Torquay.

The guard, passing down the corridor, received a pea behind the The pen was Ared from a pea-shooter.

The guard entered the right earringe and locked the door.

ear.

He invited the culprit to own up. The half-dozen endets kept silent and so the guard methodically beat every cadet with his flagstick.

Not even then was the culprit re- vealed. Each Ind took his punish ment stoically.

Later the guard was told that one of the lads was the Prince of Wales.

Three routes are now being con- sidered by the Cabinet, one of which was rejected two years ago-the it is south of the fog belt, Arctic route via Scotland, the Faroe and Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Labrador to Canada and America.

This route provides "hops" of not more than 800 miles. The second route is the direct light between Ireland and New. foundland.

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Within a week he had secured the interest of financial houses in the City to support his plans to build a £1,250,000 programme of names for the world m market.

Already he has put through with British and deal Dominions to creet 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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Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn will make a series of comedics, starting carly next year, when their Gau-. mont contract expires.

Richard Tauber will make two films for Mr. Woolf after one more for B.I.P,

British opinion in Govern- ment circles 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

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Nila ("Tarzan") will soon be attracted

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Anna Sten has signed to make The third ronte involves stopsing boats.

Certain it is that unless the one film, "A Woman Alone," to be and the Azores, both ut Lisbon foreign territory.

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