Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1940, Page 7

U. §. Race Wire Drive Brings Big Slump In Horse Beffing Bookies’ Business Off 75 Pct., Prosecutor In Chicago Says < By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 4.—The horse race betting market has suffered a “terrific slump,” United Statgs Dis- trict Attorney William J. Campbell reported today, as a result of the Government’s campaign to cut off the flow of turf information to gambling rooms. Mr. Campbell, directing the coast- to-coast drive to end the use of interstate wires for the transmission of race results to handbooks, esti- mated that wagering in gambling parlors had dropped 75 per cent since M. L. Annenberg’s Nationwide News Service went out of business last November. He attributed the sharp decline to Government opposition and the difficulty in obtaining prompt in- formation from the tracks. Prior to the dissolution of the Nation- wide network, the prosecutor said, the total wagered annually in hand- books throughout the country ex- ceeded $2,000,000,000—almost three times the sum gambled at the Na- tion’s race tracks. Betting Volume Dwindles. Since the Government began its campaign, he added, the volume of wagers in the bookies’ shops had dwindled to less than $500,000,000 a year. Annenberg deserted the race in- formation field after a grand jury indicted him and a number of his associates on charges of conspiracy to violate the income tax and lottery laws. A “wildcat” service was estab- lished subsequently to supply race results to bookmakers, but last month the Western Union Telegraph Co. and 11 men who allegedly op- erated the new system were in- dicted by another Federal grand Jury on charges of conspiracy to operate a lottery. ~ Indicted for Using Radio. 8ix Chicago bet barons, including two former lieutenants of Al Capone, were indicted on charges of violat- ing the Federal Communications Act by setting up miniature broadcast- ing stations to relay turf data to their gambling rooms after their wire “life lines” had been cut off. Government attorneys contended that the race entries, odds and re- sults sent to bookmakers were “lists of prizes awarded by means of a lottery scheme” and, hence, the Federal anti-lottery laws were vio- lated. That construction of the statutes was upheld recently by Fed- eral Judge James H. Wilkerson. Investigators predicted that the Jurist’s decision would have far- reaching results. They said it gave Government prosecutors elsewhere from the tracks. a powerful weapon to wield against the gaming trade. ‘The investigators said that bookies continued to operate, although on a restricted basis. They figured that approximately 70 per cent of them were forced to depend solely on radio broadcasts for infoemation |Two Giffs Announce By Corcoran Gallery Two noteworthy gifts to the Cor- coran Gallery of Art have just been announced by officials of that institution. These are a bronze relief plaque portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne MacVeagh by the late Augustus St. Gaudens, and an out- standing group of tapestries. All these items have been on loan exhi- bition for some years at the gallery but now, through the generosity of Mrs. Margaretta Cameron Mac- Veagh Farrar-Smith, daughter of the late United States diplomat, they become the outright posses- sions of the gallery. Of the nine tapestries, all are 16th century pieces. They const! tute, according to C. Powell Minni- gerode, director of the gallery, an| important addition to the tapestries already belonging to the institution. The St. Gaudens plaque is a bas- relief portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Mac- Veagh facing each other and is said to rank high among works by this outstanding Ameriean sculptor. Peace Council Official ‘Asks Naval Needs Probe Frederick J. Libby, executive sec- retary of the National Council for Prevention of War, yesterday asked for tabling of the Vinson naval ex- pansion bill pending in Congress until “the whole situation, including the size of the navy required to defend the United States, has been competently determined by congres- sional investigation.” Mr. Libby, in a prepared state- ment, based his request on the recent assertion by Secretary of the Navy Edison that the super-struc- ture of warships are vulnerable and the testimony of Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the Air Corps, before a Senate committee that the coun- try's fighting planes are inferior in several points. Mr. Libby termed these state- ments “frank admissions of tolossal blunders in the blind spending of recent years” and requested a survey of needs before passage of the $655,~ 000,000 Vinson bill, Offcial Piano Metropolitan Opera Distin g u i shed pat ronage has always been ac- corded the Knabe. Glorious in tone and su- perbly styled. its presence shows 8 discrim ina- ion that is sat- i M isfled only with National 4730 thy best. Se: Plasi® O 45 1330 G Street . 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