Show A I I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK I IB I B By Lemuel F. F Parton Parlon t y Mr Deweys Dewey's Rat Trap NEW YORK Our Our Mr Dew Dewey y seems to to have made a better rat trap than his neighbor and the world beats a path to his door with other cities wanting to o know how he does it Tho The young rackets prosecutor ringing up seven more convictions for a perfect score has turned up extortion totalling about He gets a year He Hes s seems ems to be bea a good Investment With possible maximum sentences of 2100 years against the seven restaurant restaurant restaurant res res- racketeers h hes he's s 's already drawing a bead on allied Industrial rackets Governor Lehman took Thomas E. E Dewey now thIrty thIrty-r thirty four ur years old from a law Jaw practice for forthe forthe the tho biggest municipal dry clean ing job of modern modem history First he put the panderers away Charles Lucky Luciano and eight others then twenty eight loan sharks with their blood money racket racket rack rack- et then with a bit of legal legerdemain legerdemain leger leger- demain he turned policy kings Into rats and put them away too He moved on through the trucking trucking trucking truck truck- ing used brick poultry bakery electrical contracting tenants' tenants and chauffeurs' chauffeurs rackets and each case brought a shout of front to the Sing-Sing Sing bell bellboys He comes from Owosso in the deep woods of ot Michigan There Ther as in Windy Gap Gnp the sheriff sherif Is supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to drive out or lock up the crooks Thomas E E. E Dewey seems to have brought this quaint smalltown smalltown small smalltown town idea to Manhattan He rides em down His father ran a country newspaper newspaper news news- paper and he was the devil dev dev- il II working on nearby farms when he was big enough He expected to be bo a choir singer and it was his baritone voice which won him a a. scholarship at Columbia Ho Re was wasa a paid soloist at St. St Matthews Matthew's and St. St Timothy's church in West fourth Eighty-fourth street Finishing In law at Columbia he engaged in private practice and later joined the staff of George Me- Me dalle dalie U. U S. S Ss district attorney It was 1933 when he roped W Waxy Gordon Gordon Gordon Gor Gor- don one of the biggest and sleekest of the r rodent dent rod rodeo o. o He Ho Is married to an Oklahoma girl They have one boy four years old and another eighteen months When the Shooting Starts A A FTER writing books E. E BritIsh Brit Brit- Phillips Oppenheim the BritIsh BritIsh Ish novelist complains that diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic intrigue intrigue his his favorite fictional fiction fiction- al theme theme theme-isn't Isn't what it used to be He knew the old patterns sufficiently sufficient sufficient- ly to foresee events His novels The Mischief Maker Mak Mak- er Our Great Secret and The Makers of History predicted the World war with almost perfect accuracy accuracy accuracy ac ac- ac- ac curacy In time and the alignment of powers Given a certain number number number num num- ber of diplomats of standard specifications specIfications specifications spec spec- engaged in routine phe- phe over old esta established punctilio punctilio punctilio tilio and he could figure out when the shooting would start But that's all over says Mr l Oppenheim Oppenheim Oppenheim Op Op- Op- Op visiting this country for forthe forthe forthe the first time in ten years Diplomats Diplomats Diplomats Diplo Diplo- mats call names and tell all aU they know and more on the radio and the laggard lac-gard novelist shouts Wait for baby as they touch off oft more deviltries than he can Invent At the age of seventy one the genial sturdy Mr Opp Oppenheim isone is isone isone one of the few writers who can man two dicta dictaphones phones at once keeping a novel racing through each of them without stopping for water or feed Caesar could work three stenographers stenographers stenographers raphers at once 1 If this reporter reme remembers remembers re re- re- re me members bes his i high school Latin c cor cor- but out n it was a n lost losi art until Mr Oppenheim and the late Edgar Wallace came along There was talk of staging a dictating race between them when they both lived a at t Nice Mr Oppenheim has been writing f one fifty years although his first novel Expiation did not appear until 1887 Previously he had published pub pub- short sto stories les Of his bo books ks have been novels and the others volumes of short stories three omnibus works and a a. a travel book He likes to have a good time durIng during during dur dur- ing the day swimming golfing or flirting with Lady Luck when hes he's on the the Riviera and usually works from four lour o'clock in the afternoon until seven during which hours he keeps the dictaphone smoking He never blocks out his yarns He just starts talking and lets the story unravel as It may In 1925 they rudely taxed him out of England He took on the Riviera but v no now lives Ilves on Guernsey island inthe Inthe in inthe the British channel When he be was eighteen he was flunked in mathematics mathematics' and quit school to work in his fathers father's leather leath er business When he visited Paris a French cafe owner told him some tales of underworld Intrigue with international complications That started his long writing marathon O 0 t Consolidated d News Features Service |