NEW YORK CITY PROSECUTOR
GOES AFTER RACKETEERS IN
CITY WITH REAL VENGEANCE
WILL NOT ALLOW POLITICS TO ENTER INTO
HIS DEPARTMENT. NO BALLYHOO IS
ATTACHED TO ACTIVITIES
By Charles Norman
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, — A
.young man from Owosso, Mich.,
who came here to study singing
aind law, and turned to law ex
clusively, heads New York City’s
vice and racketeering probe.
He is Thomas E. Dewey, cred
ited generally with the first pro
secution and conviction of a big
shot gangster on a felony charge
in 20 years. As special prosecutor
he sent Charles “Lucky” Luciano
and his lieutenants to jail after
trial in a State court on their
racket crimes. Men like Waxey
Cordon and Alphonse Capone
were placed behind bars for Fed
eral income tax evasions.
Thirty-four years old, tan from
a few days’ boating—he has not
had a regular vacation in two
years—brown-haired and brown i
eyed, with a black mustache em
phasizing his youthfulness, Dew
ey talks calmly in a deep “court
room voice”, and something of
the zeal that fired Lexow, Jer
ome and Seabury, past crusaders
against vice and crime lights up
his face.
Ballyhoo Is Out
Observers say he has brought
a new method of criminal invest
igation to bear. Ballyhoo is out.
No witness is named, no testi
mony made public, until he steps
into a courtroom. In addition,
Dewey is after the top men, not
their hirelings, in the many-mil
lioned industrial and miscellan
eous criminal rackets of the met
ropolis.
A businesslike atmosphere per
vades the fourteenth story Wool
worth Building offices of Dewey
and his assistants. Appointed a
year ago after a grand jury bar
red District Attorney William E.
Dodge from viewing its findings,
Dewey at once organized a staff
of 20 lawyer aides, nine investiga
tors, 10 accountants, four process
servers, a battery of stenograph
ers and a picked squad numeri
cally secret, of young detectives.
Half a dozen young lawyers also
serve without compensation.
No infrequently his work keeps
him an average t)f 16 hours daily
in his office, and his staff includ
ing stenographers, remain with
him.
Jailed Waxey Gordon
A law meeting with George Z.
Medalie, United States Attorney
started him on the road to his
present post. At the age of 29 he
was placed in charge of 50 law
yers as chief assistant to Medalie.
Before this he never had tried a
criminal case. He assisted in the
prosecution of Charles E. Mit
chel and later, as Federal Attor
ney himself, succeeding his chief.
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Harvard Profs
Discover Cure
I
_..._
(By The Associated Press)
BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 16, — I
Two Harvard scientists have an
nounced a method for killing in
fluenza. The two men said they
have recovered influenza virus
from the air and killed it by con
tact with ultra violet rays.
W F Wells and H W Brown,
both professors, said that persons
having influenza can sneeze and
leave a germ in the air for other
persons to get for a period of 30
minutes.
sent Waxey Gordon to jail.
Said Federal Judge Frank J.
Coleman in the Gordon case;
“It is my firm conviction that
never in this court nor in any
other court has there been such
fine work done.”
After leaving his Federal post
Dewey resumed his private pract
ice and served as special counsel
to the Bar Association without
pay in the removal of Municipal
Court Justice Harold L. Kun
stler.
Quits Politics
The present city-wide investi
gation operates on a $250,000 an
nual budget. Dewey’s own sal
ary as special prosecutor is $16,
690 a year (salary of a District
Attorney less the cuts of the
1 present administration). Asso
i ciates say it is much less than
he was earning in private pract
ice.
In organizing his staff he de
manded men without political
“obligations." He himself has said
farewell to politics. In 1932 he
aided Medalie’s Senate campaign
A year before he was Chairman
of the Board of Governors of
Young Republicans’ Club. Since
then he has not set foot :n-:de
a district club or attended a pol
itical meeting.
Dewey is married and has two
sons, four years and a year old.
He is a graduate of the University
of Michigan and Columbia law
school. He likes sailing and ten
nis, reads biographies and myst
1 eries.
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Hospital Notes
Fred Waid, a Boy Scout, who
has been employed at Nugget
Gulch by Clyle White, and who
was brought to Nome last Friday
or Saturday, was operated on for
appendicitis, Sunday. He is im
proving at the Maynard Colum
bus hospital today. ,
George Merritt of Tin City,
who was brought to the hospital
recently after suffering an acci
dental blow on the head with a
sledge hammer, is improving nice
ly here.
Peter X. Peterson, engineer at
the Fire Department, suffering
from bronchial pneumonia, taken
to the hospital Sunday, is im
proving slowly, said reports to
day.
Brother Hansen from Pilgrim
Hot Springs, with blood poison
ing of the leg, is recuperating
slowly at the Maynard Columbus
hospital and will probably be
there only for a matter of about
ten days.
Harry Udell is in the hospital
today receiving medical attention
and will be confined there only
for a few days, said Doctor Thos.
Morccm, in charge.
Hunts Eagles
L
Viitli Airplane,
Says It Is Easy
(By The Associated Press)
SAN ANGELO, Texas. Sept. 16
—“When you kill an eagle" says
Ray Baumgardner. Fort Stockton
aviator who hunts the birds by
airplane, “its mate comes to see
what has happened and is slain
easily.”
Baumgardner says eagles have
been causing more losses among
lambs than have coyotes.
“An eagle carries its kill to the
nest of its young. One of the pair
stays on the nest while the other
hunts and when the one on scout
returns the other takes its place,”
he says.
Baumgardner estimates the top
speed of an eagle at 60 miles an
hour.
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Miss Bore—“I suppose you
were nervous when you first ask
ed your husband for money.”
Miss Bridey—“No, I was calm
—and collected.”
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Beauty Women
In Columbus 0.
Getting License
(By The Associated Press)
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 16, Pro
sperity note in the beauty busi
ness:
More than 300 women appear
ed to take examinations for bea
uty licenses before the Ohio
Board of Cosmetology.
The last 50 to arrive couldn’t
squeeze into the examination
room and had to write their ex
aminations in a state office build
ing corridor.
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