Show DEWEY THE I 1 HE 46 RACKET new yorks aggressive states attorney may be G 0 00 P presidential timber if he stumble w drw ww P 7 50 I 1 1 va 41 Q J tw ZIP N D F IN 0 ko K on by JOSEPH W labine EW YORKS racket bust ning NEW ing messiah may be the republican bartys messiah as well A 35 year old political 44 youngster from owosso mich who stalked both the tammany tiger and organized crime down manhattans Manhat tans jungle now looms in many minds as the logical G 0 P choice for white house honors in 1940 his name is thomas E dewey his rocket like career as a special prosecutor for new york city has been in the limelight only two years but he is almost certain to be offered the republican nomination for governor next year if he accepts if he wins and if he does not stumble in the meantime tom deweys deleys praises may be sung and re sung from many a republican campaign platform in 1940 dewey is himself a singer he graduated from the university of michigan with every intention of following an operatic career A chicago vocal teacher encouraged him to study in new york while carrying out this advice he took law as a side line graduating from columbia university in 1925 now he manages what is facetiously called a singing school for manhattans Manhat tans hoodlums Ao ho an institution where the greats and small fry of are urged to talk started with waxie gordon deweys deleys career as a nemesis of organized crime began when j george Z widely known trial lawyer and united states at f torney for lower new york encouraged cou raged the young barrister to enter his office deweys deleys efforts brought the notorious waxie gordon to justice in 1933 it t was in this case that the michigan school his talent unorthodox legal procedure I 1 je he arrested gordon and the other principal defendants before his 0 office frice had sufficient evidence to hold them he pinned his hopes on witnesses to be secured through secret raids waxie a beer baron whose power rivaled rifaie that of al capone in chicago had bad an income of in 1930 and 1931 according to internal revenue officials like his colleagues in the racket he kept few records deweys deleys investigations 3 probably taught gordon more about his is financial standing than he ever knew before for a short period late in 1933 j dewey was united states district K attorney for lower new york meda r lie ue having resigned A successor successor e was appointed by president roosevelt and the owosso lad went back to private practice a field which J was netting him about a year when he accepted the bercu idean lean task of cleaning manhattans Manhat tans augean gean stables in 1935 that job g paid grand jury on Ram rampage pae 0 tt it started with a nonconformist conformist non grand jury an independent bunch oi of rascals who defied def aed the tammany I 1 district attorney cy y and sst set out to get at ki th the bottom of a crime business that roat was mulcting mulching ting new yorkers out of 01 millions aliens of dollars each year ahey iney got plain mad when witness after ter witness refused to testify fear ful roi 0 or P punishment nish ent at the hands of can sang doms 0 gunmen J ta press and public chafed chafee at 0 their hw inaction tion the jury asked for a VO ecial prosecutor district actor I 1 ey dodge ge rejected ted all their nomi B L ees including eluding dewey whose in Pi table treatment of f waxie ordon cordon had not been forgotten it f governor over nor lehmans intervene that caused deweys deleys eventual appointment on june 28 1935 the war had started when charles lucky luciano heard about dewey he dubbed him a boy scout so did tom the bull Penno chio chlo and little davy betillo who were among Lu cianos henchmen from his splendid apartment atop the waldorf astoria luciano ruled new yorks rackets but he was a man of mystery whose name must be whispered even among those few colleagues in crime who knew his identity must start at the bottom dewey had decided to overlook the prostitution racket temporarily at least prostitution had been the chief interest of unsuccessful cleanup clean up campaigns in the past to strike against it now might cost what little public confidence he had ia I 1 M za florella fiorella laguardia new yorks reformist mayor another man whose messianic qualities have not been overlooked obtained but in the end he followed tradition when you cant get information about those at the top you must start at the bottom and work up dewey did not know luciano was the kingpin he may have had a hunch even though luciano was mr ross at the waldorf astoria and was a most inconspicuous character acter just as he ensnared waxie gordon by making raids on the strength of evidence which might turn up later so did he put the finger on luciano in the early morning of february 1 1936 twenty higher ups were seized in a raid so secret that it gave the underworld a bad case of jitters next day came another swift secret raid that brought ahr shrieking iek kicking women to the woolworth building singing school big house for lucky lucky fled to hot springs ark where he was nobly indignant when arrested returned to new york he was slapped in the tombs under ball bail when the trial arrived dewey made it clear that he be was not after prostitutes and other underlings luciano drew 30 to 50 years and his assistants were given equally strong terms if what remained of the gang planned revenge on states witnesses they were dissuaded by the judge he threatened to demand the maximum penalty if any singers were harmed of deweys deleys A A climax to the campaign against or organized gani zed crime arrived a november 2 this year when dewey de wey was swept office attorneys ce the district into it his tammany opponent over triumph over the spoils politics was a york which has gagged new for years to vanquished justice victory was a deweys deleys tammany severe as mayor sting almost as fiorello La Guardias reelection election re on the reform platform whether the tattered tiger will recover its strength by the time next years gubernatorial election rolls around remains to be seen meanwhile hile the nations republican eyes are looking to the empire state from whence cometh their strength G 0 P gives blessing meeting in chicago immediately after the new york city election members of the republican national committee unofficially placed their blessing on dewey as a young map man likely to go places among his supporters are representative martin of massachusetts col R B creager of texas daniel E pomeroy of new jersey and mrs ralph A harris of kansas others quite logically look upon mayor laguardia as good G 0 P presidential estial timber but the little flower would not gather rural votes like he gathers them in new york he is short pudgy outspoken he has an italian name which falsely connects him with the fascism cl s in he so roundly denounced in his recent battle with hitler that a man of fiorella La Guardias strength and ability should suffer because of these personal matters is is indeed unfortunate his reform administration has been just as messianic as tom deweys deleys racket busting but whether it be dewey or laguardia the republican party sees its victory in new yorks election as noteworthy next years gubernatorial nat orial election looks favorable they say with tammany licked and new deal democrats either sullen or indifferent but the undeniable truth is that La Guardias remarkable victory is due in large part to his temporary alliance with the new labor party hes typically american deweys deleys typical americanism should preclude the necessity of such strange bedfellows bed fellows as labor and the republican party bunking together in a wholly unnatural brotherhood for dewey is a man who say his supporters has the background family connections and unsullied political record to insure popularity he came from a family of editors his grandfather george Ie martin demartin havin having g founded the owosso times in 1887 1837 grandfather dewey was a vermont product a third cousin of the admiral who took manila harbor tom deweys deleys bayh boyhood was that of any other midwestern child part cart of it spent in his dads newspaper office while studying music and law at new york he met attractive fran ces eileen hutt of sherman texas a grandniece of the jefferson davis miss hutt was a mezzo contralto and a good one she climaxed a stage career by carrying the prima donna role with george whites scandals in 1927 next year yea r she married dewey whether he becomes a candidate for governor or president tom dewey is probably destined to live the rest of his days on the public payroll right now following a rest in bermuda withers with mrs dewey hes planning big things for the states attorneys office the fa famous singing school will be continued and in a all 11 probability many more new york hoodlums will receive vocal instruction from its capable instructors the prosecutors office will be open 24 hours a day every day in the year perhaps by such tact tactics acs ics the owosso boy scout can continue the record he established as special prosecutor conviction of 71 of the 73 racketeers he brought to trial 0 western newspaper New union |