Show t TflE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 7 1938 t-- StP' wm j Sweepstakes Pin Games Pice Siot Machines the Ponies — and Now iy :T " i TO 0 Jr They’re Arresting Bridge Players! - y rJ 4y r1 nw?-- 'M JM " X ijjX" xi hi t t ns rjtr0h rf55? 00 tJ er J THOU SHALT NOT PLAY BRIDGE 1 Mildrhd Lovejoy (left) and Mr Ada-lai- s sweepstake-event- tipster sheets commonly regarded as arrant swindles netted their authors The 14 0 IN T is practically the only country in the t world where gambling is illegal Conversely there is probably more gambling in the United States than in any other nation in Christendom While Monte Carlo’s famous gambling casino totters on the brink of bankruptcy with 'TO a deficit of $260000 due to lack of patout Homo is Americanus shelling ronage an estimated $6000000000 yearly to race track touts slot machine and num- bers racketeers crap games pin games sweepstakes and lottery ticket salesman and dice croupiers roulette bird-cag- e the bridge experts poker professors list is interminable The American citiLOTTERY’S HANDMAIDEN zen will and does bet on anything from High Socialite Mr Oliver Harriman a turtle race to how many hairs in a Leading Defehderof Legalized Lotterie horse’s tail A recent survey of the gambling ga-g- a optimism of gamblers is one of the arenas for 1935 revealed many startling major phenomena of human nature There is not an office building in Amfacts The three leading lures to gamwhich houses no bookmaker The and the lotteries erica horse blers are racing the numbers game That the chances of cigar store clerk thfe winning big money on a number are elevator boy all are equipped to place to a century “on beta from a saw-buc- k 9 400000 to 1 and on a lottery ticket to 1 has in no way deterred the the nose” And don’t think gambling is confined wooers of Lady Luck soda-jerk- er 399-99- W K t: ' CQT-- m V' aJr HOT STAKES i Indignant Philadelphia Coppers Burning $50000 Worth of Gambling Parapher- nalia Seized in Various Raids V to the rugged sex! The ladies though temperamentally more poorly geared for it have been bitten by the bangtail virus Gallant touts have opened scores of horse parlors specially for Mrs Citizen and when the patrol wagon rolls around there’s a bondsman lurking hard by the station house to easS Madame’s ordeal After horse radnjjf 'gomes numbers The hotbed of the numbert game is of course New York’s Harlem section Children dispatched to the corner store to make a purchase will short-chantheir parents by a cent or two to place money On a number Even persons on relief have been known to gamble the money given them for food and lodging: 'Although the bets placed on the numbers A1 Smith Jr Who Wa Recently Emare usually small they are many The broiled with the Postofiic Department late “Dutch” Schultz garnered $2000-00- 0 in three years as managing director Following an Attempt to Legalize Lotteries of the Harlem numbers game Fhila-de- l phi a yields $1100000 yearly through in the height of chic exquisite foods and the same game Boston takes in about liquors are supplied “on the house” The $400000000 The game exists in prac- house cah usually afford it tically every metropolitan city in the Then there are the political clubs country and rarely yields less than Here the ladies are coaxed into joining to its organizers There are They' may place a bet on the: ponies or about a dozen numbers syndicates they may play bridge It is usually captained by our choicest public enemies required in a place of this sort to buy-- a These aro the major gambling indusminimum stack of chips perhaps $20 tries horse racing and numbers but When this is exhausted the loan sharks their little sisters— dog racing pin step forward with offers at games slot machines et cetera —need 150 per cent interest for 30 days Furs not hang their heads in shame The pin and jewelry are often accepted as games for example net an estimated security $100000000 Slot machines are not far The beauty of illegal gambling is that behind True “gambling hells” no the profits are clear profits The Govlonger operate on quite the vast scale ernment rarely gets its cut in income they once did but when they do they tax Of course in the 22 States where take in enough to float a national bond gambling is legal the Government rates issue Swank apartmenlaara furnished 10 paraenbonalimutuds Jn l935ihcse ge '1 s)- 3 - ! f s W J y Ci t 1 v1 Y JuH i(r $ big-heart- 4 miirifiiii iSi ' Mar 1 & I MANY ARE CALLED BY THE LURE OF CHANCE-- L Pictured by the Camera a Crowd of Bettor Enthusiastically Contributing Money to the Right the Pay-Of- f Only Lhren People Collect 1 fX'1’' Pari-Mutuel- And at the bmktUNUhli i mutuels took in $233000000— an impressive sum but a mere bagatelle when contrasted with the take on illegal gambling All of which appears to indicate that it’s suppression that whets the gambler’s appetite In Europe and Latin America governments seem to sympathize with the natural instinct for gambling — the thrills the relaxation the escape from dull routine As a result there are few restrictions Gambling casinos are wide open You can bet all you jfant on races Curiously enough the average European spends much less than the American on Lady Luck The big casinos rely mostly on the American tourist for the big takes Contrast these facts with the single fact that in the United States a carefully estimated average of $50 yearly is spent in gambling for every man woman and child in the country! Due to the falling off of foreign visitors European gambling establishments are now in desperate straits But in New York State alone last year 1000 races were run $275000000 was bet at the race tracks During the same year the State appropriation for 1750000 persons on relief was $18500000 The billions expended in gambling throughout the country exceed any sums grossed in legitimate business There are no losses due to credit Each transaction is separate and complete If you want to bet on 7 races in a single racing holiday you must make 7 distinct trans-- and $5000 worth of paraphernalia confiscated Ironic? The story of gambling in the of United States is a seething stew-pa- n ironies For instance — the United States ii d Neuwirth Bridge Teacher First of Their Profession to Be Arrested in a Police Raid on a Contract Gam Patronized by Respectable Housewives Aiftilfe: State and Government $100000000 have indicted operators in vain The LADY LUCK GOES PHILANTHROPIC Roulette Wheels Birdcages Baccarat Sabots Dice— Just Part of the Haul Seised in a Raid on a Swanky Charity Ball Where Members of the “400” Had Been Gambling to Swell a Hospital Fund -- ' V o es '" ’ Nor have the repeated raids 'upon A FORTUNE “ON THE NOSE” gambling headquarters been effective In fact the lust for gambling appears The Ponies Gallop In Carrying to increase in direct ratio to the efforts Millions on Their Back— Milmade' to suppress it The battle of prolion Donated by Gamble-Craz- y Race-Gohibition is analagous Last year in the Greatest was wagered at race tracks and Orgy of Chance-Takin- g three times that amount was placed in America Ha horse parlors miles from the track AnSeen other pony item was the $1000000000 shipped abroad for tickets on foreign rw o H ' ' $600-0000- instructors were recently flushed from their fashionable New York apartment by Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine’s burly hounds of the law they were far more baffled by the irony of their situation than by the indignities of sudden arrest Thirty million men and women squander over the green baize annually in this gamble-dizz- y Republic and nary an arCzar of Center Street the until rest— decided that Contract was of a piece with such vices as the numbers racket lot- roulette dice To teries Commissioner’s pronunciamen-t- o the quote his henchmen to raid as the Lovejoy Bridge Studio: “It's a clear violation of 973 of the Penal Code It’s keeping and maintain ing a place for gambling purposes Any persons operating a bridge club in this manner are liable to arrest Bridge is ” just like poker or blackjack And just by way of underscoring this statement the Commissioner instituted another raid upon a fashionable hospital benefit in the ballroom of the Hotel Commodore where a conclave of glittering sod slites were charitably spinning the roulette wheel Nine men were nabbed otii oyVcfK& OA'v''tJ fstsJ a Mesdames Mildred Adelaide Neuwirth a charming pair of contract bridge A V4v Yfcn "l TO f F"J 1 S' 6 M a lj - TO ¥TO Plf A’y" WHEN and M TO I® M T Li If S'lli (mmmrn " yi 4 - VSS& li "4-- ' -- S c l2i-- I ( A '! "t t xT — ii actions It was with some such facts as these in mind that a group headed by Mrs Oliver Harriman impeccable socialite and A1 Smith J r recently tried to figure out a plan by which lotteries would become legal in the United States Result: they came into conflict with the Post-offiDepartment and their plan was denied the use of the mails Small wonder that the bridge experts currently threatened with severe cracking-down were resentful Bridge though it makes deep rents m mother’s pocketbook is quite largely a game of skill It is not to be likened to a gambling game pure and simple Twenty housewives were discovered in the apartment on Seventh Avenue t’other afternoon They were playing at a cent a point thus apparently confirming the anonymous denunciatory letters which had brought the gambling squad to the apartment Unquestionably a cent a point is high It is no trick at all to lose $50 at a sitting The ladies Lovejoy and Neuwirth were arrested their guests allowed to depart after a severe scolding That night the air was made hideous with the sounds of wives wailing to their husbands: “No more bridge!” With a nation spending three times as much on gambling as its--f armors spend on American men and women seem as likely to stop playing bridge for stakes as they are to atop bettingon horsend number ce pest-contr- |