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The following incidents are a few of the notorious spiscdes perpetuated by menbera ef the Gambling fraternity: . June 9th, 1930, alfred J, Lingle, known as "Jake" Lingly the unofficial Chief of Police of Chicago and a racketeering reporteé on @ Chicago daily paper was shet and killed for double-crossing Chicago Hacketeere on gambling privileges, “Jake"Lingle was the business agent or "go-beteeen” for Police Commissioner Willian Russell end Deputy Combissioner John Stege, the map whose influence waa sufficient to prevent the Police from annoying the Bookmakers and Gamblers buying "Race track servide* from the General News Bureau, Inc. The rigid probe following “Jace” Lingle!s asath resulted in @ public demand that Police Commissioner William Btasell asd Depoty Comianioner John Stege reeign, which they did within a week, J. M. Began, General Manager of the General Hews Bureau, Inc, wae a close friend and as- sociate of "Jake" Lingle's for years. arnold Rothstein, notorious gambler, was shot and killed Movember 4, 1925 in Mew York City, the case closing with so mch mystery that it resulted in severe official reprimands of the aces of the New York City Detective Bureau ~ Detective Sergeants - Daly, Green, Flood and Cordes ~ also Inspector Coughlin then in com mand, ‘he late Joseph A Warren, former Police Comuissioner of Hew York City hose sudden death not long after he left office was attributed to worry over failure to penetrate the Rothstein myatery, Gerald E. "Jerry" Buckley, Detroit Radio Announcer was shot to death in the lobby of the La Salle Hotel, Detroit, Mich, because he dared to expose Gamblers and Racketeers, In Kansas City, October 28, 1930 Solly Weisenan was shot and killed by the Wanager of the General Newe Bur inc. for daring to question the actions of thiw Nation-wide huge gasbling monoply controlled and directed through the Gereral Wews Bureau, Ipc. Chicago, Ill. (Governor Roosevelt's ultimatum - New York Jouraa, august 14, 1930) Saratoga-Springs, N, Y., sug. 14, 1930 - Gambling house operators and employees walced the streets today as City and County Officials, obeying the Governor's ultimatum, continued to clamp the lid tightly on Saratoga. = Not only were the Big Lake House gaming halls in darkness but even City horse-roons were deserted. Recing charts had been removed and "Special leased wires from the Track cut off", (Excerpts from recent item releused by the associated Press) Chicago, Nov, 26, (4 P) James "Fur* Sammone today became the ninth of Chicago's 28 “public ener! he teker out of the beer, bullet and betting busines: went back to @ Prison at Joliet to serve 30 years more of a murder Decaude of a ruling by Attorney General Garletrom that he as not eligible for parole after having had his life sentence commted, Newark, MW. J. Nov, 2 (4 P) Foes pour bullete in dtamond~belted New Jersey racket baron. Ritchie Boiardo, First Ward racketeer fell to the gutter in front of hie home today, 16 slugs from a shotgun in his body. Police said the racketeer's activities were so numerous, including gazbling, beer-running and alcoho] that he dn anyone of his enterpri’ Sixteen gunmen, gamblers and illed in and near Wewark in the last two and « half years, NOTE: ~ 25,000 copies of Racing run-down-sheets distributed through the United States mails daily, vital essentials without which Bookmakers and Gambling on horse racing would be all but impossible and Telegraph, Telephone and "Printer" ganbling wires, aiding and abetting vige, crime and murder, re the Postal and Interstate Conzerce Commiasion euthorities aware of the dominating acts of un- scrupulous politicians and criminals, Atvention 46 called to the peculiar vicious character of thie Race track service which constantly attempts to destroy the influence of the various "Vice and Crime Comnittees". Present racceteering and ganster troubles cannot cease, until the Federal, State and dunicipal Governments deal effectively with the cause of thea, one of the greatest of "which causes" is the activities of the General News Bureau, Inc, and its Agencies which controls « Metion-wide gambling sonopoly,