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& ‘ ' at The following incidents are a few of the notorious episodes perpetuated by membera ef the Gambling fraternity: ., June 9th, 1930, Alfred J, Lingle, known as "Jake" Lingl, the unofficial Chief of Police of Chicage and a racketeering reporteé on = Chicago daily paper ras ehet and killed for double-crossing Chicago Kacketeers on gambling privileges, "Jake"Lingle was the business agent or "go-between”® for Police Commissioner Willian Rubsell end Deputy Compissioner John Stege, the amp whose influence was sufficient to prevent the Police from annoying the Bookuakera and Gamblers buying “Race track service from tha Ganeral News Bureau, Inc. THe rigid probe following “Jae” Lingle's death resulted in # public demand that Police Commissioner William Btasell asd Depoty Commiasioner John Stege re#ign, which they did within a week. J. MK, Began, General Manager of the General News Bureau, Inc. was a close friend and as- sociate of "Jake" Lingle's for years. _—- apnold Rothatein, notorious gambler, was shot and killed November 4, 1928 in Mew York City, the case closing with so mach mystery that it resulted in severe official reprimands of the aces of the New York City Detective Bureau ~ Detective Sergeant - Daly, Green, Flood and Cordes + also Inspector Coughlin then in com mand. ‘the late Joseph 4 Warren, former Police Comuissioner of New York City Whose 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 Manager of the General Newe Bureau, Inc. for daring to question the actions of this Nation-wide huge gatbling monoply controlled and directed through the Gereral News Bureau, Inc. Chicago, 111. (Governor Roosevelt’s ultimatum - New York Journa, august 14, 1930) Sarstoga-Springs, N, ¥., dug. 14, 1930 - Gambling house operators and employess walked the streets today as City and County Officials, obeying the Governor's ultimatum, contioned to clam the lid tightly on Saratoga. Not only were the Big Lake House gaming halls in darkness put even City horse-rooms were deserted, Racing charte had been removed and “Special leased wirea from the Track cut off", ; (Excerpts from recent item# released by the asaociated Press) Chicago, Nov, 26, (4 P) James "Fur* Sammona today. became the ninth of Chicago's 28 "public enentes" ts be taken out of the beer, bullet and betting business, He went back to State Prison at Joliet to serve 30 years more of a murder sentence because of a ruling by Attorney General Garlstrom that he tas not eligible for parcle after having had his life sentence commted, Newark, BN. J. Nov, 2 (A P) Foes pour bullets in diamond~beited New Jersey rackat baron. Hitchie Boiardo, Firet Sard racketeer fell to the gutter in front of his home today, 16 slugs from a shotgun in bis body. Police said the racketeer's activities were so numerous, including gazbling, beer-running and alcohol that he may have made enemies in anyone of his enterprises. Sixteen gunmen, gamblers and gangsters have béen killed 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 maile daily, vital essentials without which Bookmakers and Gambling on horse racing would be all but impossible and Telegraph, Telephone and "Printer" gacbling wires, alding and abetting vige, crime and murder, dre the Postal and Interstate Connerce Commission quthorities aware of the dominating acts of un- scrupulous politicians and criminals, atvention te called to the peculiar vicious character of thia Race track service which constantly attempts to destroy the influence of the various "Vice and Crime Comzittees". Present racceteering and ganster troubles cannot cease, until the Federal, State and d4unicipal Governments deal effectively with the cause of thes, one of the greatest of "which causes" is the activities: of the General News Bureau, Inc. and ite Agencies which controls @ deation-wide gambling sonopoly, 1 Of