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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14; 1938.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1938.

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THOMAS DEWEY, New York's District Attorney, (above) has just conducted an attack on a £20,000,000 racket that some say is unbeatable.

ROBERT WAITHMAN tells you here what the racket is, and who Dewey is.

the runner. That would be on

Dewey wina this case it is considered here to be virtually certain that he will stand as Governor of New York State at the end of this year. And he may well be elected.

Roosevelt was Governor of New York before he became President of the United States. There will be new Presidential HOW, by short stage, election in 1940. The Republl- he reached the posit- cans have no candidate yet. If

8 Singles bet. You would have won on a Combination by get-ion of Special Rackets Pro-Dewey is Governor of New York ting the right three figures in secutor, how he broke Charles in 1940, and has maintained or You walk into the barber's the wrong order; but for that "Lucky" Luciano and the chain. increased his prestige, there shop or the cigar stand across the road, or, maybe, you go to you would have drawn only store prostitution business, how seems to be nothing at all to he caught Waxy Gordon, beer stop him from emerging as Re- publican candidate for President. runner, and cleaned up the dead-

That is what this trial means ly restaurants racket, are old

to Dewey. It has been watched

about half as much.

the man who sells newspapers at the corner of the block, or to the coloured elevator boy in your own office building or apart-

THE men who take the stories now. The new story is all over America. It has been ment house. You can generally

two million dollars or bigger than any of them, because watched in New York by overy And someone. You slip the paper with the nickel into his so a week in nickels and dimes the Choirboy is now the most mother's son, and talked about. hand; and that is all you need to and, quarters rely chiefly on exciting political figure in New The barber asks you what you think about it as he takes your do to become a part of New the hopeful poor whom they York.

silp of paper with the nickel fold- continue to rob and cheat

The new story, springing up ed inside. by paying out only 800 out of the nickols and dimes in to 1 on what is obviously a 1,000 the folded slips of paper, has already into an issue THE numbers racket is to 1 chance. They are the big grown racketeers HOW extant. which, illegal gambling gest

fantastically, points

York's numbers racket.

an

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organisation or series of organi- They are big enough to have straight towards the White Of Nazi Coup

sations which nets a gross laking bribed the law into silence, up House. This is the moment of not less than £20,000,000 to now, by retaining political when the curtain goes up.

year. The first man arrested bosses who would "fix" any for complicity in the numbers trouble that might crop up. racket went to prison in New York in 1911. Every successive District Attorney since then has tried or pretended to try to stamp the racket out.

nickel and many

various secret channels

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First race Second race

Third race

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calling him "The Choirboy."

Dewey has launched his attack the unbreakable numbers racket.

In Austria

The Conquest of Austria, the first gigantic coup of the Nazi regime, is the subject of the "March of Time" newsreel previewed yesterday at the Queen's Theatre and to be screened nt that theatre to-day. Iller's Vienna, J. the Austrian capital, leaves in its

DEWEY is trying to triumphant march through

convict James

after

an un-

UNTIL quite recently "fixing" WIS easily Most New Yorkers say it is and comfortably done either by now impossible ever to stamp it paying over money to a police. out..

man or a judge, or both, or by Hines, powerful Tammany lead-path a succession of suicides.

He accuses Hines of being The Alm turns back the clock to threatening political disaster or er. The barber, cigar, news

days of the or death. But lately "fixing" has the political bass who did the the

Hapsburgs, to a clevator man who took your slip not been at all easy.

"fixing" for the king-gangster Vienna which was the gayest capital in Europe, and after a few glimpses will be visited later in the morn-

It has not been easy because. Dutch Schultz, Schultz had the of the Great War

which involved (in opposite camps, a natural out- ing by a gentleman in a motor for the first time in 22 years, numbers racket in his pocket, Austria, with

consequent loss of come of the diametrically op car who will swiftly enter your the office of District Attorney is and might have still if he had new Austria. Hitler, the son of on opposition machine-new the son of on number in his book, collect your to which they posite tenets

Customs Austrian

Officer, com. other nickels not occupied by a Tammany survived

mences his climb to power, Tracing F.T...Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. subscribe, has divided the world and disappear. The money and man. Tammany, a branch of guns.

Arraigned with Hines were Austrian independence a plan firat the course of Hitler's plan to end

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into two irreconcilable and, un- the numbers will seep through the Democratic Party which de-

til veloped into a local government some lesser figures, the biggest voiced in "Mein Kampf" as a "neces- B 8747-Baby, Won't You Please Come Homa.

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they come into the possession of of legendary power, allowed of which is J. Richard "Dixie" sary condition for the security of the German race"-"March of Time" are feverishly arming

the Big Boss who is running the racketeering and graft to reach Davis, whom Schultz employed shows that what seemed to be a light- Lionel Hampton & His Orch, which

and preparing against the day particular numbers game you the point at which New York as his lawyer.

ning blow against Austria was, in citizens accepted it with the re-

By a series of moves which no to a 14-year-old plan.

reality, the superbly staged_climax when the "show-down" will de-are patronising.

signation they brought to bear

City Prosecutor in England fcide which is to prevail. Herr Next day you look in your on the common cold.

would dare to attempt, Dewey Hitler was an obscure Austrian ex- When "Mein Kampf" was written, if you have

But now Tammany is not, and has induced "Dixie" Davis to corporal who had served in the Hitler's challenge to Democracy newspaper to see

won. You look for a paragraph the District Attorney is a Re for no other interpetation can headed "Yesterday's Mutuels." publican called Thomas Edmund witness against Hines. Dewey thrown into prison

squcal. Davis was

State German army and who had been placed upon his violent The paragraph gives, baldly, Dewey.

always has been willing to let By 1993, Hitler had become a power successful Nazi pulsch in Munich. diatribe at Nuremberg-felt the amount of money wagered yesterday on the totalisator at

average smaller fish out of his net in in Europe and was seemingly Dewey is below

ready just short of the ultimate chal-several race tracks. Thus:

height, dark, with a neat little order to make sure of the bigger to test his theories. His course of of lenge that would have brought

black moustache. He is not a fish. Usually he makes very action is traced, up to the time

Roosevelt sure, stacking the evidence a Dollfuss. But the murdered Chon- the murder of Austria's Chanceller. personality in the upon civilisation the cataclysm

You do not hear him mile high. But he has never cellor became

symbol of inde- CHATER ROAD, for another and more horrifying

spoken of with affection. You had as much at stake on a trial pendence and more than ever the

people turned world

to its own leaders. war. Unhappily, Herr

hear him spoken of with either before.

Then the Germun

army marched hushed admiration or plain hate Hitler has given no signs that

If Dewey's evidence is water- across the border and into Vienna, and fear; and this is a distinct tight, and Hines is convicted, and with Austria proclaimed forever Armageddon has ceased to be a

change from the time, only the Democratic Party here in shinws why the

Nazt property, the "March of Time" rest of the world terrifying possibility of the not

You know, as everybody elsa couple of years ago, scornfully its Tammany form will almost fears that Hitler's first conquest may distant future. That Czecho-knows, that you always look at

certainly be finished for good, be only n prelude to other things he

the Slovakia is inviolate to-day is the last figure before the deci- When Michigan-born Dewey Conversely

Republican prophesied in "Mein Kampf." probably due to the awakening mal and always take the last came to New York in 1932, it Party, now deep in the doldrums,

three figures.

was at the urgent suggestion of will be borne along a fair wind. of Democracy, which, in the

So if the number you wrote him to abandon law and have publican Party will gain a new past ten years, has seen Totali- tarianism stamp rough-shod across the pathways of civilisa- an ever-increasingly tion in daring manner that leaves no doubts regarding the future.

jan Democracy regards it, is Whether civilisation reached

founded that there can be no Utopia by orthodox Democratic reconciliation. Britain and De- GRIN AND BEAR IT measures or by Totalitarianism mocracy have no quarrel with would be immaterial were man- the Totalitarian methods pecu- kind certain that the latter liar to Italy and Soviet Russia, system did not envisage violence, for these nations, in recent discrimination and extermina-years, have not sought to im- pose their political philosophy tion of all opposition as a neces-on the rest of the world. But sary precession to the attain-the past record of Germany has ment of the ideals towards proved that fears regarding the which it is struggling. But the territorial and political integrity record of Totalitarianism is an of Czecho-Slovakia are only too well founded. Democracy chal- unhappy one. The Jewish po

nged Herr Hitler when it be-i groms are too fresh in the

apparent that Czécho- came minds of Democracy to be light-Slovakia was in imminent dan- ly dismissed; the world can ger of sharing the unhappy fate of Austria, and Herr Hitler, in still recall with a shudder the

hla momentous speech at violent purge and the pitiful Nuremberg on Monday night, concentration camps which re-did not accept the challenge. moved all opposition to National the will of its peoples; the The power of Democracy Bles in

Socialism; the violation of trea-weakness of Totalitarianism is The Įties and moral obligations; the its reliance upon one man.

most amazing commentary on rapa of Austria-all these out- Totalitariantam is that one man come of the political philosophy is so omnipotent to his own to which Herr Hitler and his peoples that, by a spoken word, followers

he can plunge the whole of subscribe are #0

civilisation into horrors such as

tenets upon which civilisation, might well mean its end.

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The new leader will be Thomas Edmund Dewey.

Lichte

Allegations

By Lichty Chuen, gave evidence against

"Worst pitcher, I ever seen!—I could hardly wit through it twicel"

Declaring that she had been per- sunded to go to Macao with the youth and that he had sold her, through a go-between, to a brothel mistress, a 16-year-old girl, Woug Tang Kwan, 18, when he was charged be fore Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with enticing the girl out of the Colony for the purpose of prostitution.

Detective Sergeant C. Mottram prosecuted, while Mr. F. E. E. Nash appeared on behalf of the youth.

The girl-sald she had known Tang for about a year, and that in April he had persuaded her to go with him, In company with two other women. to Macao. At Macao, they took a room in

a boarding house. two

The women leit, nud brought in another man who

Tang later praised her and then went awAT. ap- Tang and the next morning sho and she spent the night to- was forced by Tang and the stranger to go to Kongmoon where she was put in charge of a brothel mistress. The sum of $150 in Chinese currency was paid by the mistress to stranget who in turn gave the money the to Tang.

After staying in the brothel for two months, she eventually managed

to

got in touch with her mother in Hongkong and was relelised.

Crom-examined by Mr. Nash, she denied that

she had been infatuated

with Tang and had made herself nuisance. She

Also denied that through domestic troubles

and be cause Tang's mother would not let her marry him, she had asked him to help her become a prostitute.

The case was adjourned

p.m. on Friday, September 16

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