Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton TYM mr deweys deleys rat trap adewey NEW EW YORK our mr dewey seems to have made a better rat trap than his neighbor and the world beats a path to his door with other cities wanting to know how he does it the young rackets prosecutor ringing up seven more convictions for a perfect score has turned up extortion to talling about he gets a year he seems to be a good investment with possible maximum sentences of 2100 years against the seven restaurant racketeers hes already drawing a bead on allied industrial rackets governor lehman took thomas E dewey now thirty four years old from a law practice for the biggest municipal dry clean ing job of modern modem history first he put the panderers wanderers pander ers away charles lucky luciano and eight others then twenty eight loan sharks with their blood money racket then with a bit of legal legerdemain he turned policy kings into rats and put them away too he moved on through the trucking used brick poultry bakery electrical contracting tenants and chauffeurs rackets and each case brought a shout of front to the sing sing bellboys bell boys ile he comes from owosso in the deep woods of michigan there as in windy gap the sheriff is supposed to drive out or lock up the crooks thomas E dewey seems to have brought this quaint small town idea to manhattan he rides em down his father ran a country newspaper and he was the print shop devil working on nearby farms when he was big enough he expected to be a choir singer and it was his baritone voice which won him a scholarship at columbia ile he was a paid soloist at st matthews and st timothyy Timo thys church in west eighty fourth street finishing in law at af columbia he engaged in private practice and later joined the staff of george U S district attorney it was 1933 when he roped waxy gordon one of the biggest and sleekest slee kest of the rodent rodeo lie ile is married to an oklahoma girl they have one boy four years old and another eighteen months when the shooting starts AFTER A FTER writing books E phillips oppenheim the british novelist complains that diplomatic intrigue his favorite fictional theme what it used to be he knew the old patterns sufficiently to foresee events his novels the mischief maker our great secret and the makers or of history predicted the world war with almost perfect accuracy in time and the alignment of powers given a certain number of diplomats of standard specifications engaged in routine phe eagling over old established pinc tilio and he could figure out when the shooting would start but all over says mr oppenheim pen heim visiting this country for the first time in ten years ulolo biolo mats call names and tell all they know and more on the radio and the laggard novelist shouts walt wait for baby as they touch off more deviltries devil tries than he can invent at the age of seventy one the genial sturdy mr oppenheim heim is one of the few writers who can man two dictaphones dicta phones at once keeping a novel racing through each of them without stopping for water or feed caesar could work three stenographers at once if this re reporter remembers his high school latin correctly but it was a lost 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 at nice mr Opp oppenheim has been writing fifty one years although his first novel expiation did not appear until 1887 previously be had published short stories of his books have been novels and and the 1 others volumes of short stories three omnibus works and a travel book he likes to have a good time during the day swimming golfing or flirting with lady luck when hes on the riviera and usually works from four 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 1025 1925 they rudely taxed him out of england he took refuge on the riviera but bul now lives on guernsey island in the british channel when he was eighteen he was flunked in mathematics and quit school to work in his fathers leather business when he visited paris a french cafe owner told him sonic some tales of underworld intrigue with international complications that thai started his long writing marathon 6 0 consolidated nw news features service |