Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-11-10 | Page 4 | Phones Cut off from 'Bookies'

PHONES CUT OFF-FROMMOKIES' OFF-FROMMOKIES' CHICAGO, Nov. 10 tffV-U. S. District Attorney William J. Camp-be)! Camp-be)! announced today he had obtained ob-tained a promise from the Illinois Bell Telephone company to discontinue dis-continue the telephones In every horse racing handbook n Chicago. There are about 700 betting parlors, par-lors, the prosecutor said, which will be affected by this lstest blow to the gambling business. Promptly at noon yesterday In response to earlier demands by Campbell and State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney of Cook countythe coun-tythe telephone company cut the leased wires linking the nationwide nation-wide racing news system of M. L. Annenberg to Illinois handbooks Campbell reported his Investigators Investi-gators found that the harassed bookies Were still very busy at their telephones getting Information Informa-tion from other sources. He Informed In-formed the telephone company of this activity this morning and told Its representatives that he considered consid-ered the use of the 'phones to be in violation of the gambling laws.