Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1934, Page 8

A-8 i Schultz Rules Numbers Here; “Safest City,” Says Magazine Urticle in Today Charges Police With Lax Enforcement and Recalls His- tory of “Jimmy’s Place.” (Note: Acceding to a recent request by United States Attorney Garnett, The ‘Star, the “Post, the Times, the Herald and the ¢ity’d four broadcasting stations are Te- fusing to aid the numbers racket by dissemination of the race total numbers with which the game here is conducted. Publication or broad+ casting of such totals is of no in- terest outside the numbers racket.) The charge that the numbers racket in Washington, described as “the safest Eastern city for the mob.” 1s controlled by the jailed New York gangster, “Dutch” Schultz, is made in the current issue of Today, ‘weekly news magazine edited by Raymond Moley, which appears on the news- ands today. “Dayton Stoddatt, n the third: of his series entitled “Millions and Mur- ders,” writes: fs “Behind each group of newsboys and store clerks (who accept bets on the numbers), stands a collector, and |= behind each group of collectors is a bank.” Behind the ‘banks’ are the associated rulers of the racket—the ‘combination,’ headed, at least until hew was jailed recently, by a New York gangster—Dutch Schultz.” The reason the racketeers have de- scribed Washington as the ‘“safest’ city Stoddart says is due to the “over- lapping of authority and consequent lack of co-ordination in Jaw enforce- ment,” which, he says, “make the National Capital an easy city for the mobs to enter and build up,their or- ganizations.” Wilson Murder ‘Discussed. + * * |- “They have entrenched themselves strongly in Washington,” says the article. Speaking of the recent murder of Allen B. Wilson, the article declares: “The imported gunmen assigned to | the job made a mistake; they killed an innocent bystander, Allen B.| Wilson. The man they were after, mobsters say, was one of the fore- most numbers racketeers in Wash- ington, and = ‘front’ for. Dutch Schultz’ alleged henchmen, Tommy | Leonard and ‘Nig' Rosen. Leonan‘l} is wanted in Philadelphia for jumping bail on a numbers charge. “A belated uproar against the numbers game was caused by the killing of Wilson. The Federation of Citizens’ Associations, with which the District is dotted, moved to or-, ganize vigilante groups to help the police; the District of Columbia Bar Association, through its president, F. Regis Noel, joined in the campaign, | and United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett asked the newspapers to stop printing the racing bet totals, since, | s he said, ‘It is generally recognized that one of the most vicious forms of gambling in the District is the numbers racket.’ Infiuence on Youth Cited. “Further, Mr. Garnett said: ‘It is finding an increasing hold upon those of tender years and the poor end lliterate.’ " Stoddard says also that “incredible as it may seem to non-residents, one out of every three Washingtonians | bets on the numbers.” “Their nickels, dimes and quarters keep the numbers mob well supplied with funds for murder and blocking although existing laws are sufficient for the purpose, if they were en- forced. Attorney George E. Sullivan, head of the Committee on Law and Legislation of the Federation of Cit- izens’ Associations, cites a decision of the Court of Appeals of the Dis- trict of Columbia, given only two months ago, that the numbers game is a distinct violation of the law.” “Jimmy’s Place” Described. Stoddart devotes a considerable part of his expose on conditions here to “Jimmy’s place,” notorious gambling house, just across the District line in Prince Georges County, where, he says, the net profit reaches a million dollars a year. “The dally betting runs as th as $125,000, from the 1st to thehg-h of each menth, and again from the 15th. (Government paydays occur twice a month.) mmy’s place runs its own num- 2 =] Philco with guaranteed foreign reception! $49.95 offer hundreds of exeel- lent used radios—trade- t give-away prices. All are 100% recondi- tioned and guaranteed and are just the thing for that basement recreation room, the children’s room or the kitchen. SOME AS LOW s AS the law, for the District of Columbia yields a revenue of around $50,000 & week to the gangsters in control The weekly play is more than $200,000. To make this contribution to crime almost every Government -office -in | ‘Washington provides a share.” | He attacks alleged lack of police action against the numbers operators with these words: “In Washington it is° obvious that the police have made no great effort to break up the- numbers ‘monopaly, o Open Until 10 P.M. 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