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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1938.

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PEACE ON EARTH

Civilisation is in a curious

posite tenets

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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

IF Dewey wins, this case

it is considered here to. Le virtually certain that he will stand as Governor of New York State at the end of titis year, And he may well be elected.

Roosevelt was Governor 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

he reached the posit- cans have no candidate yet. If

a 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 you would have drawn only store prostitution business, how seems to be nothing at all to the rond, or, maybe, you go to

the man who sells newspapers about half as much.

he caught Waxy Gordon, beer stop him from emerging ns Re- publican candidate for President. runner, and cleaned up the dead-

That is what this trial means at the corner of the block, or to

ly restaurants rucket, are old the coloured elevator boy in

to Dewey. It has been watched The new story is all over America. It has been your own office building or apart-

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. think about it as he takes your hand; and that is all you need to and, quarters rely chiefly on exciting political figure in New The barber asks you what you do to become a part of New the hopeful poor whom they York.

silp of paper with the nickel fold- and cheat York's numbers racket.

The new story, springing up ed inside. continue to rob by

out

600 out of the nickels and dimes in paying

only to 1 on what is obviously a 1,000 the folded slips of paper, husi

an issue

illegal gambling gest An

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THE numbers racket is to I chance. They are the big grown already into points Cinema Record organisation or series of organi- They are big enough to have straight towards the Of Nazi Coup of not less than £20,000,000 a to now, by retaining political when the curtain goes up. In Austria for complicity in the numbers trouble that might crop up. Dewey has launched his attack

sations which nets a gross taking bribed the law into silence, up House. This is the moment

year. The first man arrested bosses, who would "x" any

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.

.out.

your

gume you

on

the unbreakable numbers | racket.

The Conquest of Austria, the first Rigantic coup of the Nazi regime, i the subject of the "March of Time" newsreel previewed yesterday at the Queen's Theatre and to be screened at that theatre

to-day. Hltler's

DEWEY is trying to triumphant march through Vienna,

Austrian

involved

loss

of

com-

When "Mein Kampf" was written,

UNTIL quite recently easily "fixing" Was

convict

J. the James

Austrian cupltal, leaves in its Most New Yorkers say it is and comfortably done either by now impossible ever to stamp it paying over money to a police-

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

He accuses Hines of being The dim turns back the clock to Benny Goodman & His Orch.predicament. The alignment of

threatening political disaster or er.

days of the Hapsburgs, to a The barber, cigar, news or death.

But lately "fixing" has the political boss who did the the

Vienna which was the gayest capital "fixing" for the king-gangster in Europe, and after a few glimpses Democracy and Totalitarianism elevator man who took your slip not been at all easy.

will be visited later in the morn- It has not been easy because, Dutch Schultz. Schultz had the of the Great War which in opposite camps, a natural out- ing by a gentleman in a motor-

consequent for the first time in 22 years, numbers racket in his pocket, Austria, with

Austrin. Hitler, the son of Jeome of the diametrically opcar who will swiftly enter your the office of District Attorney is and might have still If he had territory, turns to the life of the

number in his book, collect

Customs Officer, a Tammany survived opposition machine-new Au

res his climb to power. mences

Tracing nickel and many other nickels not occupied by

the course of Hitler's plan to end F.T... Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. subscribe, has divided the world and disappen. The mony and man. Tammany, a branch of guns.

Arraigned with ilines were Austrian Independence plan fest into two irreconcilable and, un-the numbers will seep through the Democratic Party which de-

until veloped into a local government some lesser figures, the biggest valced in "Mein Kampf" as a "neces- various secret channels

allowed of which is J. Richard "Dixio" sary condition for the security of the al Time" happily, hostile forces--forces

they come into the possession of of legendary power,

shows that what seemed to be a light- are feverishly arming the Big Boss who is running the racketeering and graft to reach Davis, whom Schultz employed German race" "March

ning blow against Austria was, In the point at which New York as his lawyer. and preparing against the day particular numbers

reality, the superbly staged climax citizens accepted it with the re-

By a series of moves which no to a 14-year-old plan. when the "show-down" will de-are patronising.

signation they brought to bear

City Prosecutor in England eide 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- 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-

a State German army and who had been squeal. Davis —for no other interpetation can headed "Yesterday's Mutuels."

after an un- publican called 'Thomas Edmund witness against Hines. Dewey thrown into prison

successful Nazi pulsch in Munich. be placed upon his violent The paragraph gives, baldly; Dewey.

always has been willing to let y 1933, Hitler had become a power the amount of money wagered diatribe

of his net in in Europe and was seemingly ready at Nuremberg-fell

Dewey is below average smaller fish out yesterday on the totalisator at just short of the ultimate chal-Severn! race tracks. Thus; height, dark, with a neat little order to make sure of the bigger to test his theories. His course of black moustache. He is not a fish. Usually he makes very action is traced, up to the time of lenge that would have brought

Thistle Down:

the Roosevelt sure, stacking the evidence a murder of Austria's Chancellor,

Dollfuss. personality in

But the murdered Chan- cellor became symbol of inde- upon civilisation the cataclysm

sense. You do not hear him mile high. But he has

You had as much at stake on a trial pendence and more than ever the CHATER ROAD. of another and more horrifying

spoken of with affection. hear him spoken of with either before. world war. Unhappily, Herr

hushed admiration or plain hate

If Dewey's evidence is water-across the border and into Vienna, Hitler has given no signs that

and fear; and this is a distinct tight, and Hines is convicted, Nazi properly, the "March of Time"

only a the Democratic Armageddon has censed to be a

change from the time.

Party here in shows why the terrifying possibility of the not

You know, as everybody else couple of years ago, scornfully its Tammany form will most fears that Hitler's first conquest may

calling him "The Choirboy." certainly be finished for good. be only distant future. That Czecho-knows, that you always look at

the Republican prophesied in "Mein Kampf." When Michigan-born Dewey Conversely Slovakia is inviolate to-day is the last figure before the deci

mal and always take the last came to New York in 1932, it Party, now deep in the doldrums, probably due to the awakening 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

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Then the German

and with Austria proclaimed forever

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prelude to other things he

a singing teacher who wanted More important still the Re- 16-Year-Old past ten years, has seen Totali- on your slip had been 492 in his voice develped. He had been leader with a public backing Girl's Grave

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leader you would have a choirboy; and he had led the such as no Republican

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daring manner that leaves no doubts regarding the future.

jas 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- the latter liar to Italy and Soviet Russia, kind certain that system did not envisage violence, for these nations, in recent 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 are only too record of Totalitarianism is an

well founded. Democracy chal- unhappy one. The Jewish po

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

apparent that Czecho 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 his momentous speech at violent purge and the pitifulNuremberg on Monday night, concentration camps which re- did not accept the challenge. The power of Domocracy lles in | moved all opposition to National the will of its peoples; the Socialism; the violation of trea-weakness of Totalitarianism is ties and moral obligations; the its reliance upon one man. The most amazing commentary on rape of Austria-all these out-Totalitarianism 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, he can plunge the whole of followers subscribe are 80 civilisation into horrors such as THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. diametrically opposed to the it has never known, and which

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Allegations

By Lichty Chuen, gave evidence agairist Tang

"Worst plicher I ever seen!--I could hardly sit through it twice)"

Declaring that she had been per- suaded to go to Macno with the youth and that he had sold her, through a go-between, to a brothel mistress, a 10-year-old girl, Wong 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. Motirani prosecuted, while Mr. F. E. E. Nash appeared on behalf of the youth.

The girl said 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, lo Macao. At Macao, they took a room in

a boarding house, The two women left, and Tang later brought in another man who

op. praised her and then went away. Tang and she spent the night to- gether, and the next morning she was forced by Tang and the stranger Io 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 stranger

who in turn gave the money to Tang,

the

After staying in the brothel. for two months, she eventually managed to get in touch with her mother in Hongkong and was released.

Cross-examined by Mr. Nash, she denied that she had been infatuated with Tang and had made herself nuisance. She also through domestic troubles and be

denied that cause Tang's mother would not let her marry him, she had asked him to halp her become a prostitute.

The case was adjourned to 2.30 p.m. on Friday, September 18.