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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1988.

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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.

That would be on

the runner.

a Singles bet. You would have

Deway wins this case

it is considered here to be virtually certain that he will stand as Governor of New York Stato at the end of this year. And he may well be elected. Governor Roosevelt was

of New York before he became President of the United States. There will be a new Presidential HOW, by short stage, election in 1940. The Republi

ho reached the posit- cans have no candidate yet. If won on a Combination by get ion of Special Rackets Pro- Dewey is Governor of New York ting the right three figures in sccutor, 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 you would have drawn only store prostitution business, how seems to be nothing at all to the road, or, maybe, you go to about half as much.

he caught Waxy Gordon, beer stop him from emerging as Re- the man who sells newspapers

rummer, and cleaned up the dead. publican candidate for President. That is what this trial means at the corner of the block, or to the coloured

in elevator boy

ly restaurants racket, are old to Dewey. It has been watched your own office building or apart-

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

two million dollars or bigger than any of them, because watched in New York. by every find 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. and, quarters rely chiefly on exciting political figure in New The barber asks you what you think about it as he takes your hand; and that is all you need to do

silp of paper with the nickel fold- to become a part of New the hopeful poor whom they York.

continue to rob and cheat York's numbers racket.

The new story, springing up ed inside. paying out by

only 600

out of the nickels and dimes in to 1 on what is obviously a 1,000 the folded slips of paper, has an issue

THE numbers racket is to i chance. They are the big- grown already into

rucketeers now extant. which, fantastically, points illegal gambling gest an

towards the White organisation or series of organi- They are big enough to have straight sations which nets a gross taking bribed the law into silence, up House. This is the moment of not less than £20,000,000 a

first man arrested to now, by retaining political when the curtain goes up. The

"fix" any bosses who would

Dewey has launched his attack for complicity in the numbers

on the unbreakable numbers racket went to prison in New trouble that might crop up. York in 1911. Every successive

racket.

year.

District Attorney since then has tried

or pretended to try to stamp the racket out.

out.

Thistle Down:

First race Second race

Third race

Dewey.

"fixing"

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STORIES

OF SPEAKERS

IT is not nearly so easy to spunk in

public

it appears. Many would-be uratora have been put to confusion when faced by an expect- American audience.

One

DEWEY is trying to an

speak's intended oration turned into

convict James

J.

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me."

"AS

well, who went to rainburgh to de- liver a lecture long ago. He delight- By a series of moves which noted and captivated a large audience City Prosecutor in England for an hour and a halt, for he was 14

born orator. After the event was would dare to attempt, Dewey over one of his friends said to him, has induced "Dixie" Davis to "Why, Southwell, you never men- squeal. Davis was A State tioned the subject of the lecture!" witness against Hines. Dewey did the audience while he was speak- always has been willing to let ing.

never

Well, I quite forgot "

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And so

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1938.

UNTIL quite recently easily PEACE ON EARTH

Most New Yorkers, say it is and comfortably done either by

4 confession: "Ladies and gentle- Civilisation is in a curious now impossible ever to stamp it paying over money to a police-

man or a judge, or both, or by lines, powerful Tammany lead-men, i am the possessor of a gigantic

He accuses Hines of being intellect; but just at this moment .Benny Goodman & His Orch predicament. The alignment of

threatening political disaster or cr..

do not happen to have it about me."

Nanthamel Hawhorne once found The barber, cigar, news or death. But lately "fixing" has the political boss who did the Democracy and Totalitarianism elevator man who took your slip not been at all easy.

"fixing" for the king-gangsterhosen in

similar quandary.

It Was mind and it sounded hollow. in opposite camps, a natural out-will be visited later in the morn-

It has not been easy because, Dutch Schultz, Schultz had the rose," he said, "I tapped upon my in ing by a gentleman in a motor-

whatsoever," When Thomos come of the diametrically opcar who will swiftly enter your for the first time in 22 years, numbers racket in his pocket, quite empty. There was nothing

opposition machine-Carlyle was a young man, he had posite tenets to which they number in his book, collect your the office of District Attorney is and might have still if he had

a Tammany survived

to propose a toast in connection with B 8746--Little White Lies.

a public dinner given to Allan Cun- Tears in My Heart. F.T...Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. subscribe, has divided the world nickel and many other nickels not occupied by

Tammany, a branch of guns. and disappear. The money and man.

Arraigned with Hines were ningham. He began, "Gentlemen, I

don't into two irreconcilable and, un-the numbers will seep through the Democratic Party which de

know that i will get it out, but Fox Trot

until veloped into a local government some lesser figures, the biggest nave it in would like to have B 8747-Baby, Won't You Please Come Home.

happily, hostile forces-forces various secret channels

allowed of which is J. Richard "Dixie" Every speaker I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby. Fox Trot

Lionel Hampton & His Orch, which are feverishly arming they come into the possession of of legendary power,

the Big Boss who is running the racketeering and graft to reach Davis, whom Schultz employed the gift possessed by Charles South- and preparing against the day

the point at which New York as his lawyer. particular numbers game you when the "show-down" will de-are patronising.

citizens accepted it with the re- signation they brought to bear cide which is to prevail. Herr

Next day you look in your on the common cold. | Hitler's challenge to Democracy | newspaper to see if you have

But now Tammany is not, and for no other interpetation can won. You look for a paragraph the District Attorney is a Re

headed "Yesterday's Mutuels." placed upon his violent

publican called Thomas Edmund The paragraph gives, baldly, diatribe

Nuremberg-fell the amount of money wagered

Dewey is below average smaller fish out of his net in just short of the ultimate chal- yesterday on the totalisator at

But there are other types of speak- height, dark, with a neat little order to make sure of the bigger

very ers, among them those who weary lenge that would have brought several race tracks. Thus:

black moustache. He is not a fish. Usually he makes

their audiences. One man gave a upon civilisation the cataclyam

personality in the Roosevelt sure, stucking the evidence a

talk on his truvel-experiences. He sense. You do not hear him mile high. But he has

was very prolix and exceedingly un- CHATER ROAD. of another and more horrifying

spoken of with affection. You had as much at stake on a trial interesting. After a weary hour, he famous his visit to s world

spoke of war. Unhappily, Herr

sald he, hear him spoken of with either before.

Canyon "There I stood,"

in Hitler has given no signs that

hushed admiration or plain hate

If Dewey's evidence is water- "with that vast abyss yawning Armageddon has ceased to be a

and fear; and this is a distinct

tight, and Hines is convicted, front of me." The chairman whis- change from the time, only a the Democratic Party here in pered to a friend, "I'm not a bit sur- terrifying possibility of the not

A man may make his mark on distant future. That Czecho- You know, as everybody else couple of years ago, scornfully its Tammany form will almost prised, for he'd make anything yawn. calling him "The Choirboy."

certainly be finished for good, other walks of life and not succeed Ilorace Greeley, the

speaker. Republicanus Slovakin is inviolate to-day is knows, that you always look at

the last figure before the deci- When Michigan-born Dewey Conversely

Ward was travelling with Henry probably due to the awakening mal and always take the list came to New York in 1932, it Party, now deep in the doldrums, eminent us a journalist in America Beecher, and as they passed a small of Democracy, which, in the three figures.

was at the urgent suggestion of will be borne along a fair wind.

town, Greeley said, "I once had a a singing tencher who wanted

More important still the Re successful lecture there." "What do past ten years, has seen Totali-

So if the number you wrote him to abandon law and have publican Party will gain a new you mean by a successful lecture?" tarianism stamp Tough-shod on your slip had been 492 in his voice develped. He had been leader with a public backing inquired Seccher, "Why, was the across the pathways of civilisa-stead of 841

you would have a choirboy; and he had led the such as no Republican loader reply, "more people stayed in than collected in return for your Michigan University Glee Club. has had for many a long year. ever-increasingly nickel 30.00 dollars (6)-that But he did not take the New in an daring manner that leaves nois, G00 to 1-less 10 per cent. for York teacher's advice in the The new leader will be Thomas

Edmund Dewey. He stuck to law. doubts regarding the future.

fend. Whether civilisation reached

founded that there can be no Utopia by orthodox Democratic reconciliation. Britain and De- measures or by Totalitarianism mocracy have no quarrel with GRIN AND BEAR IT would be immaterial were man- the Totalitarian methods pecu- kind certain that the latter liar to Italy and Soviet Russia, for these nations, in recent system did.not envisagé violence,

years, have not sought to im- discrimination and extermina-

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 of Czecho-Slovakia aro only too record of Totalitarianism is an well founded. Democracy chal- unhappy one. The Jewish po- nged Herr Hitler when it be

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

his momentous speech violent purge and the pitiful Nuremberg on Monday night, concentration camps which re-did not accept the challenge. moved all opposition to National The power of Democracy lies in Socialism; the violation of tren- the will of its peoples; the ties and moral obligations; the weakness of Totalitarianism is rape of Austria all these out its reliance upon one man. The most amazing commentary on come of the political philosophy Totalitarianism is that one man to which Herr Hitler and his is so omnipotent to his own followers subscribe are so peoples that, by a spoken word, ho can plunge the whole of liametrically opposed to the civiliantion into horrors such as THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. tenets upon which civilisation, it has never known, and which

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went out." Some

speakers fall into an inflated style of speech, like a Welsh preacher who became very fervent and de- clared that "the cocks of the Millen- nium are already crowing on the roosts of the Promises."

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By Lichty found in De Quincey, who, staying a

"Worst pitcher I ever seen!—I could hardly sit through it tilcel"

An example of this style may be

while at the home of Professor John Wilson (Christopher North), used to march away to the cook and almost dally

talk after

this fashion: "Owing to the dyspepsia afficing my system, and the possibility of any additional disarrangement of the stomach taking place, consequences incalculably distressing would arise, ns to increase so much so indeed nervous irritation, and prevent me from attending to matters of over- whelming importance, if you do not remember to cut the mutton in diogonal rather than a longitudinal form

Many men have good matter, but they do not ges. it OVET well. Sometimes the fault may be in the clocution, nt other times it may be in the buliding. The Rev.

Dr. Vaughan, later Headmaster of flor- row School, when Vicar of Doncaster, allowed his page to go to York because he wished to hear a famous preacher. On the youth's return, Dr. Vaughan sold, "Did you hear him well?” “Oh no, sir, I did not hear him, but I seed him hollering."

He is fine speaker who, knows when to stop. Over fifty years ago, Sir Fredericic Bramwell was to reply. to the toast of "Applied Selence" at a meeting at Cambridge. There had. been very many, speeches, ‚ahd.

old slowly

Dest illustration The best of Applied Science I can give at this. time of night is the application of the. lucifer match of commerce : lò, the bedroom candle.

Frank Bool,

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