Show Hell Well Hath No Fury Dimples T eUs of Lettuce On Dining Room Table By Frederick C C. C Othman WASHINGTON The The average average average aver aver- age taxpayer seldom learns the details of life nee in the underworld underworld underworld under under- world of his home town he hek k knows now sits sit's i its it's t s there but the outlines a are r e vague That's t why I think I you s should h 0 u 1 d read this piece about Dimples 4 Hall the lettrice lettuce lettuce let let- f tuce trice on her dining ining r roo room o o m Mr Othman table and the ice her ex-boy ex friend slipped to the police He could afford the bribery his take from rom the numbers racket ran up to per day And he was only one of a number number number num num- ber of Negro numbers operators operators operators opera opera- tors in the Capitals Capital's Little Har Har- lem The same things thing's probably probably probably I ably been going on in your our city too only you have no U. U S S. S senators to force the racketeers to testify under oath Nobody needed to pressure Dimples who turned out to tobe tobe tobe be a striking young Negro woman in a trimmed mink coat of Persian lamb She was wasa a woman scorned and hell hath no fury et cetera Dimples told the senators how she ran the time bookkeeping department for White Top Simkins Simkins Simkins Sim- Sim kins the numbers mogul His runners brought to her house the collections running between between be be- tween 2000 and per day and she put this lettuce on the dining room table Jack the Bear Upstairs at a battery of seven adding machines she kept Jack the Bear Thomas Sporty Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son Gee Chee Charlie and others busy keeping the ac accounts accounts ac- ac counts straight Downstairs old White Top hung around grousing about the ice he had to give the cops cops and and receiving receiving receiving re re- re- re them cordially when they came to call hats this ice demanded Senator Lester Hunt D. D Wyo Dimples adjusted her veil veiland veiland veiland and fixed her hair which had been dyed a deep and almost bluish auburn Ice she said what you pay for pro pro- So for five years from 1940 to 1945 Dimples operated the accounting department at her house on Georgia Ave Never once was she arrested Never once was her headquarters raided The police called sometimes in uniform and sometimes not but they always always always al al- al- al ways retired to a back room with White Top Up to a Day Dimples told how the numbers numbers numbers num num- bers runners brought in to per day during the f first of the week and how the take went up to a day dayon on Fridays and Saturdays when Harlem's 1 gamblers got their pay She explained to the fascinated fascinated fascinated fasci fasci- senators how the runners runners runners run run- ners received half of the net proceeds after the few winners winners winners win win- ners were paid off for what she called their hits Once a month mouth she said White hite Top handed the ice to the police The n names a m e s of these stalwarts she could not remember No amount of senatorial sen sen- atonal prodding could help her remember And how did you happen to leave the employ of Simkins Simkins Simkins Sim- Sim kins inquired Senator Hunt He lIe Walked Out OutI OutI OutI I didn't leave testified Dimples He left Fact is she said he walked out and opened another bookkeeping bookkeeping book book- keeping establishment a few blocks away on 1st St. St Her exceedingly frank testimony surprised Senator Herman IIerman Wel Vel Welker ker R R. Ida Every question about White Tops Top's nefarious operations she answered as if she enjoyed it And how long did WhiteTop White WhiteTop Top stay at your house in the evenings the senator in in- As long as he wanted to replied Dimples He lie was my boy friend friend friend-at at the time Senator Welker flushed red and Dimples having vented her fury on the man who left lefther lefther lefther her left with a smile on her heavily and purplish powdered face tJ |