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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1947.

Chicago Mayor Fights DUMBBELLS Multi-Million Dollar Gambling Racket

For the first time in years the lid has been clamped tightly on Chicago's multi-million dollar gambling racket. The new mayor, Martin H. 'Kennelly, 'had promised reform in his campaign speeches, and the city is getting its first taste.

OIL STRIKE

IN HEART

OF BEIRUT

Loudspeakers which once blared the race results were silenced, Dust gathered in gambling joints through-i out the city.

Chicago had experienced perlodi- cal "clean-ups" before-most of them just before election time. But none

was as drastic as this.

The shutdown closed big and little gambling spots alike. In previous clean-ups, only the small handbooks, An oil strike in the heart of typified by the eigur store front and the crowd of horseplayers in the Beirut, ancient Lebanese city back room, were forced to close. founded by the Phoenicians In the present drive, the ultra- centuries before Christ was

swank

with their roulette spots tables and.

chrome and leather born, threatens to bring the din furnishings were closed

well. and clangour of drill crews to Many of these were run In con- its medieval market place. junction with night clubs, and were

patronised by the wealthy.

The strike was made next to the old wall of the city, In Assour Square. Albert Asscyll and his bra- ther, war-made millionaires, made the discovery on land they bought from the municipality.

Nearly 200 barrels of oily water The was taken from the seepage. man-made well refills itself each two mani-hours. Samples of the liquid were sent in various laboratories which are still studying the "oil."

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Part of the severd, slump in night club business was attributed to the anti-gambling drive.

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BY ROBERT RICHARDS (United Press Staff Correspondent)

Russia's Andrei Gromyko. once known as very dour, is perhaps the

the top personality among

United Policemen Transformed

Nillóna delegates,

Hendrik De Kauffman of Den- The land, about 800 square yards,

Shortly after his inauguration. was to be used for n Ave storey building. Because the soll is deep, Kennelly set the gumbling clean-up mark is more handsome, Sir Alcxon- After conferences with der Cadogan of the United Kingdom A Glamorous Setting is as important to perfume as it is to a woman!

engineers recommended that the ex- In motion.

Police

more polse, and France's Alc- commissioner has

makes 4 mor THIS AND THAT!,

twisted turbans or wide sequin-xpat-cavators dir to bed rock for a solid John C. Prendergast transferred 31xandre Parodi

foundation for the building.

polished speech-but 39-year-old of the city's 39 police captains. About 18 yards beneath the aur-The move served a double purpose. Russian tops them all with his talent face ally water appeared. A ratt

strategle districts for humorous remarks. dipped in the water will burn. Itt removed from

captains who had permitted A reporter for a New York news- wan from such seepages that oil furthe

no Gromyko whom blood into

districts where Russia would, nominate as governor the lamps of Egypt came during the umbling to flourish, and it brought paper kept asking

of Trieste. Day after day, Gromyko line of the pyramids.

It was the most drastic reshutting kept replying that he did not know. gambling was running wide open.

Finally, one day, Gromyku rushed in the police department's history,

Many of Russia.

last, has her nominer. patrolmen were shifted. Shortly afterwards, 78 sergeants and up to the reporter saying: them hnd served as liaison agents We are giving to you as an ex- amblers and their clusive to asked the reparier between the superiors in the department. Differing Opinions

"necomplished natebook in. land. The shutdown was

Gromyko, "Why you." replied Tiardly had the olly liquid been with only a few scattered ralds.

The syndicate which controls grinning broadly. "We feel that you brought to the surface before old:

since yoti've Beirut was rocked by arguments as gambling as well as the city's other should have the fob

shown so much interest in the sub- to whether or not the and indicated lucrative rackets closed up quickly,

No one Syndicate big shots, some of whom jeet. an important el Deposit.

A United. Press reporter asked denied that the substance behaved were assoclates of the Inle "Sear- like nit, but nome thought it seeped face" Al Capone, are sitting tight, Gromyke what he intended to say awaiting developments, They re-

in a coming speech. Gromykco made into the exenvation from a nearby called the last gumising crackdown brief reply and then added:

Optimists shouted down the doub-nine years ago, which lasted only lers with arguments of their own: 1. No matter how fast It is balled out the

liquid keeps dowing into the hole.

dug more Engineers have than half a yard into the rack face from which the of comes, and have merely hastened its flow.

2. The liquid obviously is coming

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care on your own nails. It saves the Fine but i complicated!

Pink-linted stockings places with Black sandals!

Goblen metals are making the srene infilate. A dozen bracelets In one aru Isn't too many for fashion now.

Wool evening coats look smart and more Elegan. thon those of velvet or even of fur! And any clever-with-a-needle female can make a wool evening cout.

nto

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BIG KIANGWAN RUNWAY NOW BEING FIXED

Black slacks, worn with short fur juckets, look stunning on allm, long- Jegged young women,

A wide

Patching up of the huge concrete cummerbund of bright colour

at Shanghai's Klangwan runway cinches in the waistline.

sleeve- A

Airfield, which started cracking in less sweater, sparkling with sequins, weak spots.several months ago, has

few months.

Loosaning The Grip Many of the small-time gamblers, however, are hard-pressed for funds. Police said some of them had turned to petty crime,

Many went into partnership with owners in deals whereby

tavern

is worn as a blouse. No hat. There been started by the US. Air Trans- From the rock face. Besides the flow bartenders took bets on the horses

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"right" with slacks. The girls wear of the Chinese Alt Force.

Minalu Maksyo 4 GABRIELLE

Here's an old, but over new bonu- ty tip! Hair oily? Just won't look, pretty? So little time" But, what's this?—a Minute Shampoo! Tako a few tablespoonfuls of oatmeal from the kitchen shelf. Work it Into scalp and hair. Quickly brush It through your hair. The oatmeal absoroba the excess oil. Your hair is now manageable.

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sons believe.

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age from storage tanks, many per- The main runway, which was bull! Oil recently had been discover

the Lattaqula, to

worth, by the Japanese in 1938 and entered near Latt ed in 1941, is now being repaired under similar circumstances.

The by American engineers.

Asseyli brothers promptly secured from the Lebanese govern An ATC spokesman emphasised ment

permit for schrch and ex- that the reconstruction work is ploitation of their And-and in the limited to repairs of damaged sections market place the shrill argument as of the runway and will not extend in its origin goes on-United Press. to major modifications.

The bly runway, measuring about 0,500 feet, has taken the poundings of innumerable four-engined "Ameri can transports and Eumbers since the US Army air force occupied the field In September 1945. It was intended only as a Agister and lightbomber | strip by the Japanese air force.

four-inch

STREPTOMYCIN

SAID CURE FOR PLAGUE

you really want to hear what I've got to say, I suggest that you drop in and watch me working."

During a debate in the Security Council, Gromyko snr pped:

"We can't all around here and discuss this in American slang all night."

He further explained that he, per- sohally. had nothing whatsoever the cut. against American alang-in fact, moved into the suburbs, where un rather enjoyed "but this simply increase in gambling activity was isn't the place to use it." reported shortly after the ild was clamped on

on Chicago.

not

Dropping The Starch

^ women news correspondent Kennelly emphasised that he did

claimed that Gromyko also was al- to wipe expect

out gambling completely. But he said he hoped lowing the rest of his staff to drop strunge to minimise it, and rid it of its the storch from their collars.

case of blond, curly-haired Alexei racketeering aspects. He also want- quoted, as exhibit A, the ed to loosen the syndicale's grip

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The numbers racket and the Krasilnikov, No. 2 man for the So- polley wheels are still operatingvlet delegation. Pollce said they were hard to stop

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because of their transient nature. one day

Penang Chinese Destitutes

The

sitting beside Krasilnikov

my informer said, "but I didn't quite know he was such a big shot. We chatted for some time about this and-thol. Then-1-offered. him a Etick of gum."

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that he was dealing with a capitalistle malden on much too friendly ground,

"Anyhow," said the lady journa- list, "he suddenly half-shouted 'no'.

He up.

simply And then closed wouldn't talk to

to me longer." After that. for

for severul days, f Krasilnikov saw her in the hall, he looked the other way.

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Main reasons for the cracking of the airstrip's concrete paving is that

Chinese Government, the Jepanese laid on a

Dr Karl Meyer, head of the thick layer only, which in inadequate for all except the lightest military California University's Hoover through the Chinese Consul in claimed the Penang, is arranging to give planes. Lunghwa's new airstrip, for Foundation, has comparison, has a concrete runway discovery of the most effective relief to 4,200. Chinese destitutes

Then, recently, he started speak- of 12 inches average thickness. medicine so far known for the in Penang, according to a press

"I'm ing to me again," she said.

over with at treatment of bubonic and pneu-report from Penang. The Kingwan Airfield,

Mr N. K. Lec, Chinese Consul at convinced he talked it least two occasions, took the weight monic plague, reports Central

Penang, har announced that a sum Gromyko, who told him to go ahead of the US Amy's largest operational News. bomber, the Superfortress. Tho

However, she has never been able After six months' experimentation of Straits $130,000 was being re--it was all right."

mitted by the Nanking Forsign Office reatest burden ever borne by the field was during the Cannon Project on mice, rabbits and pirs, Dr Meyer for this purpose. The money was to get Krasilnikov to accept that

In the stick of gum. of the first occupation days in 1945. recommended the use of the newly for

streptomycin on expected to reach Penang

"I'm so sorry," he insisted politely, middic of developed drug.

Infections. principally to assist 1,200 destitute "you see, in Russla,. We never de of them big human beings infected with bubonic

and pneumonic He sold the results he obtained Chinese who had registered them-veloped a liking for this stuff." "Justified" the expectation that the selves at the Chinese Consulate and

3,000 Chinese farmer-settlers Who PSYCHIATRIST ON

been new drug would be equally effective ad

Inveigled during the in dealing with human plague in-

Japanese occupation to emigrate to fections.

He declared that the entire pro-Province Wellesley to grow fond and blem of plague, which has taken who are now stranded there.

It is understood that each rellet Sex criminals should be taken out One of the truly great love stories of our time glorifies the Scroon! millions of lives in the past, could case will receive $30 and that any balance of the $130,000 remitted by now "fairly be well licked" with streptomycin.

It may be recalled that during the the Chinese Government would be war bubonic and pneumonie plagues used as relief for Chinese stranded ravaged Fukien, Chekiang, Hunen in Batavia-Reutor.

At that time, as much as 190 planes arrived daily, many C-54's.

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and other places in China, claimed thousands of victims. With the development of ctreptomycin, it is expected that the work of epidemic prevention and control in China, will become much easier.

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As the door of evered your safe?

offee, a Sign asks: "Have you After employees leave for the night, two-guards check every safe every hour. If they find a door open, one remains beakies the safe while tho other telephones the person respon sible. He must come immediately to the office, check the contents of the Rate and lock it

Heavy steel grilles, opening only from the Inside out, are built faco

Crabes are beirt the fire escapes. constructed to the building's parking lot which can be opened only try

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SEX CRIMINALS

of circulation, in the opinion of Dr

Richard C. Jacnike Strung, psychin- trist of Rochester, N.Y.

He believes they are a psycho- togical problem, and an Institution is needed to care for them.

A court consultant on many cases Involving morals violators, Dr Strong. should be confined until cured. Film director William Wyler will "But the state makes no provision he said. "They represent the American Moilon Pie- for their care," ture Academy of Arts and Selences cannot be sent to a mental hospital at the International Film Festival, because they do not fall in the legal in Brussels this month. Wyler was category governing inspuity. They elteted vice-president of tne do, nevertheless, need institutional Academy a few weeks ago,

care."-United Press.

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