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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.
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Raccoon Never Overcame
Hit Terror of High Places
He had no idea what the
world looked like outside his
hollow In the tree, or what
problems he would be forced
to face when he entered that
unknown place. 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. Un
less we stimulate these young
stersunless we put into effect
In our schooit the vigorous activ
ity programt they need there
will be more and more flabby
and unfit Americans tomorrow!
So, urge your local school board
to carry out a vigorous physical
fitness program every day lor
very girl and every boy.
If you would like more informa
tion, write to The President
Council on Physical Fltnett,
Washington J5, D.C.
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