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B MONDAY. JUNE 17. 1913 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Gambling I Annual Revenue in Illegal Gambling In U.S. Believed To Be $50 Billion Br HARRY FEROUSON Wahington-Ui?6-The other day woman stepped out of telephone booth here and was arrested on charges of oper ating numbers game netting about (1,000 a day. This is a fairly common occurrence and is mentioned only be cause the arrest was made In the lobby of the Bureau of Internal Revenue where she had been employed for 20 years. It is common knowledge that illegal gambHng is ri. pant across the United States and some persons in position to know put the annual turn over at $50 billion. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, armed with new powers from Congresa and using advanced techniques, is waging massive war against the gamblers. He believes that gambling-rathcr than narcotics or prostitution, for Instance - is the chief source of revenue for the American underworld. . A small but vocal group of people think Bobby Kennedy is wasting his time. They ar gue that the urge to gamble the desire to get something for nothing is as basic in hu man nature as hunger and the sex drive. On the principle that if you can't lick 'em, Join 'cm, these people ssy the so lution is for the federal gov. ernment to legalize gambling and drive the racketeers out of business. Some of these proposals will be examined in detail later. Fuel for Fire Such Incident as the wom an j arrest are juei lor me fire of advocates of legalized gambling. How, they argue, are you going to stamp out gambling when an alleged numbers ring Is operating in side the citadel ot the Ameri can lax structure? They fol low up by telling two stories, both fictional and both so heavily encrusted with the moss of time that doubtless you have heard thtm: - -A man Ii losing steadily at roulette and a friend says to him: "Don't you know that roulette wheel la crooked?" The man replies: "Sure, but .', it's the only game In town." ' -A man, about to enter a horse race track falls to his knees and utters this prayer: "O, Lord, please let me break even today. My wife needs to have her appendix out." The point they are trying to make, of course, is that nothing is going to prevent gambling. This argument gets short shrift at the Department of Justice. Bobby Kennedy Is not Interested in philosophy cal discussions about the gam bling urge. The laws are on the books and he has sworn to enforce the laws. In a re. cent statement Kennedy ex plained what he was doing "In the Department of Jus tice the organized crime and racketeering section has been revamped and strengthened e that it can marshall all the resources of the federal gov ernment and provide ellec- live assistance to state and local agencies ... Welfare Workers To Receive Grants Two Jackson county wel fare employees have received grants for graduate study, the State Public Welfare commis sion announced today. ' They are Roland Hartley and Mrs. Marjorie Haley, Uni versity of Washington. Educational leave grants provide a monthly income to the student during the nine month school year, Personnel Director Corlnne LaBarre ex plained. In line with new state poli cies this year's grant amounts have been rained. Grants now range from $380 to $450 de pending on the size of the slu. dent's family. Previously, grants were limited to $300. Trainees are required to sc oop', a year's employment with the agency for each year of tudy. Many stay on long past their commitment. More than three-fourths of the ,48 former grantees now employed in key Jobs through out the state have already met their obligation and are con taining i to , work for the agency. "The number of attorney working in this section has been expanded about three times to about 60. Each is as signed a specific part of the country and Is responsible for all grand Juries and trials in his area. Steps also have been taken to instill a new spirit of cooperation among the 27 federal law enforcement a gen cies. In criminal intelligence for example, each agency pre viously kept its own separate files on underworld figures. Now this material is being consolidated daily into special files of the organized crime section, forming complete and up-to-date reports on some 1,500 big time racketeers. As result, we have Jailed rack eteers who previously were able to elude punishment." Some of the big fish who have been snared in Kenne dy's net are Frankie Carbo, Bllnky Palermo, Trigger Mike Coppola, Buster Wort- man, Frankie Caruso and Kid Cann. Some were caught on Income tax evasion and some on narcotics violations, but all of them knew their way very well along the Intricate network of gambling that runs through the underworld. If a man wants to be pro fessional gambler, he must buy a $50 wagering stamp, pay the federal government a tax at 10 per cent on his gross wagering receipts and a tax of $250 on a gaming de vice such as a slot machine. For reasons of their own thousands of gamblers try to evade the laws by not regis-1 tering and not paying the taxes. That's when Bobby Kennedys men strike, and sometimes their activities sound like something out of a suspense novel. Hit SI Cilias - They once made simultane ous raids in 61 cities and ar rested 140 persons. Last April 300 federal agents assembled from Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin hit Chicago in what was described as the largest raid in the history of ami gambling enforcement. It was the climax of six months of investigative work, and each agent knew exactly where to go and the identity of the man he was seeking. ' This was a drive against illegal book makers. Thirty nine establishments were raided simultaneously and U. S. Attorney James P. O'Brien said, he had smashed two en tire syndicate book making rings. Bobby Kennedy does not think he Is going to stamp out gambling overnight. He is en couraged by new laws mak ing it a felony to transmit bets interstate by wire or telephone; a felony to trans port gambling devices such as numbers racket slips Inter state: and a felony to travel Interstate to promote or en gage In gambling. '. . . The fight Is far from won," Kennedy says. "The forces of organized crime are quick to move In when they find law enforcement tempo rarily lax or inefficient .. . . It must be a long-range, de termined effort." N.xti Lotteries, legal and illegal. pi) Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. 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Neither was there any Indication that this one little raccoon would be so much different than his den mates or any of his thousands of raccoon ances tors who had preceded him. His mother didn't know ci ther. All her children had been born in this same hol low tree. She felt the ex treme height of the den cav ity was decided advantage; It always had been. From her high vantage point she could survey much of the surrounding woodland; It waa especially beautiful to her when the full moon bathed the forest with soft, yellow light. It was a roomy cavity, her nest In the old tree. The young raccoons even had room to wrestle and tumble over one another. As far as she knew, this was the most desirable den In the entire forest, The youngsters, if they could have appreciated the location, should have considered them selves lucky to have such a high nursery In which to safo- ly spend their beginning days. One Was Misting tverytmng was just ducky right up until the night Mrs. Raccoon decided it was time the youngsters came out of the hollow tree and hunted their own food. Even then, things were good up to a certain point. The baby rac coons seemed happy to crawl out onto the nearby limb. From there, by easy stages, they moved down on the tree trunk. But one was missing. Mrs. Raccoon scampered back up the tree to see what was holding up the parade. There on the limb, Just out tide the opening of the den, was one of the children, fro zen In terror, and clinging desperately to the tree limb. She nudged him gently. He only gripped harder on the limb. She cuffed him with her paw. He burled hit head between his front feet. He was terrified. By some strange quirk of raccoon peculiarity, he had developed a frar of high pieces. Acrophobia comes close to being a terrible afflic tion to a raccoon, bom high up In a hollow tree. In spile of all Mrs. Rac coon could do, the little one refused to move down, or change his position on the limb. Several times during the night, he tried to back up Into the den cavity. But even this was never accomplished; II night long he trembled and nervously gripped the tree limb. He was afraid tn look down, and there waa noth ing to see by looking up. The mother raccoon lost her patience. She and the nor mal - acting young ones pur-, sued frogs in the nearby marshlands, and hunted for berries and other edibles. Sheer loneliness and hun ger drove the frightened young raccoon from one limb to a lower one; in be tween limbs, a long period of terror and waiting occurred. He fell the last few feet and landed with a thud on t h e spongy forest floor. He was on a firm footing; his fright drained away from him. All this would probably have gone unnoticed, except that during the following sev eral years, coon hunters re peatedly chased a big rac coon that always sought safe ty In a burrow In the ground. Kegardiess of how closely he was . pursued by baying hounds, never did he attempt to climb a tree. The little rac coon that had terror of high places never outgrew it; may be he was not so mucfTafraid of nigh places as he was afraid to look down. "I don't want 'my child to be an athlete. So why bother about his physical fitness?" Remarks lika this strike at the very heart of our nation's physi cal fitness probltm. The athlete gttt all the physical conditioning he needs In school. But the physically underdevel oped child or the child who has no desire to participate In am-lelict-he't the one a should worry about. And there are doiens of him for every physically-gifted child. 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