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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-12-06, Page 7Armoured Cops Bullet-proof vests and steel - lined hats came into fashion about the time that gangsters' bullets were whistling up and down American streets. But the fashion was by no means a new one. In 1880 the Kelly Gang, Aus- tralian outlaws, descended on the town of Jerildelie, robbed the bank, and murdered the local constable. Police were sent from Mel- bourne to wipe out the gang, and the Kelly boys retreated to the little town of Glenrowan, where they herded the populace• into the local hotel. Then, having tried to tear up the railway line in front of the advancing police train, they barricaded themselves in the hotel with their hostages and prepared to shoot it out, After an all-night fight, Ed- ward (Ned) Kelly, one of the gangsters, emerged from the hotel, and none of the police bullets could harm him, for he had put together a suit of ar- mour made from ploughshares wrapped around his head and body. Before he could shoot -up the police, however, he was brought down by a shot in the legs. Today, the American police have taken to the idea of body armour in the fight against crime. The latest type issued to the Detroit police consists of a 65 lb, metal cuirass which covers. the head and body and is sur- mounted by a small but power- ful spotlight faced with bullet- proof glass. The visor is pro- vided with windows, also of bullet-proof glass, and strap -on armoured plates are provided to protect the legs. The police will Iook like a robot army when they go into action against riot- ing crowds or besieged gunmen. — Now Much Sleep D.t You Need? Did you sleep well last night? Flow many hours did you sleep? And when you awoke, did you feel completely rested? Questions like these, and many others, are being put to men, women and children by U.S. doc- tors studying the mystery of sleep and trying to find out hnw much the body really requires. Most people don't feel happy unless they have eight hours' sleep every night, but there are students of sleep who say that's ton much. Sir Merman Weber, an authority on long life, blamed some people's habit of sleeping more than eight hours for the premature decay of the brain. It's well knnwn that many men of active brain are satisfied with little sleep. Immanuel Kant slept very little, remarking that "much sleep exhausts energy and shortens life." Dr. Graham Bell, pioneer of the telephone, seldom slept for more than four hours out of the twenty-four. Lord Nuffield never needs the prescribed eight hours and Na- poleon was another renowned short sleeper. A Dr. Hollingworth, who spent months conducting research into steep, said that one day it may be possible even to develop a sleepless race. "Eventually we may eliminate sleep altogether," he forecast. NO LOVE INTEREST "There's only one reason why Hollywood hasn't built a movie around the atom," said a film critic, "and that is because it hasn't been able to train an electron ar • neutron to put on a love scene!" WHAT'S HIS LINE? — He's an anti -malaria worker, collecting mosquito larvae from a pond in the Insein area, 30 miles from Rangoon, Burma. He is a mem- ber of the Burmese teams of workers which •have joined with UNICEF -- The United Nation's Children's Fund, celebrating its I+Oth birthday this year. POLAR SCOUT — Pointing out his destination in Little Amer'ca is Richard Chappell, the only Boy Scout member of Operation Deepfreeze. The scientific expedition will leave Dec. 22 for a year and a half in the Antarctic, making studies as part of the International Geophysical year program. Young Chappell was at the Boulder Laboratories, learning about techniques for studying the ionosphere over the South Polar region, 6nish Sweepstakes Swindle Exposed! The truth about the Irish Sweepstake operations in the United States and Canada have never been told. A cloak of high-pressure publicity has shielded the sinister racketeer- ing done under its glamorized name. But, now, for the first time, the Police Gazette has unearthed the shocking story. Three times a year sweep- stake drawings are held in Dublin based on the famous English turf classics, the Grand N a t i o n a I. the Derby and the Cambridgeshire. Newspapers throughout Canada and the U.S. sensationally publish lists of Irish Sweepstakes winners and splash the photos of the jubi- lant winners over their front pages. This is the opium which feeds the dreams of millions of Americans who believe that their pot -of -gold lies at the end of the Irish rainbow. Those Americans who can least afford it pour over $100 million dollars a year into the pockets of agents peddling tick- ets to forutne, But the tragic story is that the dreams and hopes of mil- lions of Americans are the foundation upon which the big- gest racket in the world has been built, a racket that has mulcted a billion dollars from the American public in the last ten years. In its efforts to circumvent the Federal laws in the United States. which prohibit lotteries from using the mails, or engag- ing in inter -state commerce, 'the distributinn of Irish Sweep- stake tickets in the United States is in the hands of shady distributors, dishonest agents and petty swindlers who packet a lion's share of the money col- lected. Nineteen out of every twenty Irish Sweepstake tickets sold in America are counterfeit and distributed by highly organized gambling syndicates. One mid- west ring sold 20 million coun- terfeit tickets during a 15 year period. Another defrauded the public of more than 28 mil- lion dollars in a single year and a . third distributor and his agents peddled more than 61,- 500,000 1;500,000 in bogus tickets 1 n a single month. This is merely part of the in- side story of the Irish Sweep- stalu which has been uncover- ed by the Inspectors of the U.S. Post Office Department. who made concerted drives to stamp out the evils of the Irish Sweep- stake. Their files are replete with cases covering the opera- tions of rings prddlinc counter- feit lottery tickets and the dis- honest activities of the distri- butors of genuine Irish Sweep- stake ducats as well. Here's an excerpt from a con- fidential Postal Inspector's re- port that sums up the rack- eteering behind the dist.ribt,tion of the Sweepstake tick di; in the United States: "The fraud that is perpetrated on the American public indir- ectly as a resn't of this lottery is caused by the dishonesty on the part of many of its distri- butors, agents and gambling syndicates. Genuine tickets are counterfeited in Canada and the United States. The racketeers go so far as to send agents to Eng- land and Ireland to mall to the American public fraudulent re- ceipts. " ... • In one instance an Am- erican racketeer had his agents deliver envelopes purported: to be from Ireland, but to which he had affixed an impression of of a fraudelent postmark. Fraud- ulent tickets were known to have been printed in large quantities in Montreal and New York, where evidence was also obtained of the printing of fraudulent receipts, or counter- foils." The official Irish Sweepstake offices in Dublin are fully aware of the widespread counterfeiting of tickets and the loopholes through which 'heir dishonest agents crawl with most of the money obtained frim the sale of their tickets to the American public. But there is nothing much they can do. They print a warning on the ticket asking purchasers to be certain that the agent selling the ticket is "trust- worthy" and explain that an official receipt will be sent from Dublin. But the counterfeit lottery ring also print bogus re- ceipts and have them sent to their customers from Ireland. Even if purchasers aren't vic- timized by the lottery rings selling counterfeit ticket s, the've got little chance that their genuine ticket will ever end up in the drawing wheel in Dublin. Genuine tickets are smuggled into the United States to a central distribution depot. From here, they are sent to local dis- tributors thIlimighout the country who pass them on to their agents to sell. Now let's say you buy a tic- ket from one of these agents, here's what can happen to the $2.85 you pay for it. The agent, whose commission is two tickets from each book he sells, may pocket the pro- ceeds, or he may turn over the money with the stubs contain- ing the names and addresses of the buyers to his distributor. The distributor frequently poc- kets the money from the sale of many of the books and only transmits a small portion of the funds to Ireland. Sweepstake officials have no way of check- ing whether their distributors gay.' them an honest count. Crooked distributors, in cahoots with accomplices in Ireland, then mail phoney receipts to the purchasers postmai ked f r o m Dublin. In recent years local distri- butors have come up with an "honest" way of • robbing you. They've acquired mailing lists of individuals in their territories and have mailed them books with instructions to remit the money directly to a certain name and address in Ireland. ^ecause of the constant surveil- lance of postal inspectors, hun- dreds of different names and addresses in Ireland are used at "drops." Let's say a person gets a hook of Irish Sweepstake tic- kets in the mail with a letter asking him to sell the tickets (he'll get two free cut of each book as commission) and then remit the money to a certain "drop" in Ireland. He's asked to get a cashier's check nr Am - ARE CANADIAN ASTROLOGERS FAKES? Do you believe it's possible to pre. dietthe future? Would 0 surprise you to learn that 5,000,000 Canadian women ere completely devoted to this strange art and its mystic pow. era? In the December Liberty, Frank Rasky reveals the results of his nation-wide investigation into the authenticity of Canadian Astrologers. one of whom has predicted Dwight D. Eisenhower will suffer a heart attack by Dec. 16 of this year. Don't miss this startling article in the DECEMBER LIBERTY Now On Salol erican Express money order made payable to himself, and endorse it similarly on the back, He sells the tickets to his friends, follows instructions and sends the money to the "drop" in Ireland. What he doesn't know is that if he wasn't used as a "shill" by a counterfeit ring which duplicates the Sweepstakes dis- tributional set-up, he's still a Grade A sucker, because many of the genuine "drops" cash a good percentage if the checks themselves. Result: the Sweep- stake office in Dublin never re- ceives the proceeds, and phoney receipts are sent to the U.S. purchasers. Eo,idence gather.:t. by United States Postal Inspectors casts suspicion on some of the officials of the Hospital Trust in Ire- land, sponsors of the sweep- stakes. A high post office de- partment official toll the Police Gazette: "Numerous checks that were traced by this Service had been cashed ty officials of the 1ospital Trust in Ireland, ob- viously for their own account" In many cases postal inspec- tors get the drop on the "drops" and immediately issue fraud orders which goes to the mail clerks in the New York post - office sorting mail bound for Ireland. When the clerk comes across a letter being sent to a "'drop", it is intercepted—stam- ped fraudulent—and returned to the sender. Furthermore, the sender is liable for prose- cution for using the mails to participate in a lottery, if the letter contains lottery stubs, or remittance from the sale of the Sweepstake tickets. The racket involved in the sale of foreign lottery tickets to Americans is not only limited to the Irish Sweepstakes. Postal inspectors are plagued with a steady influx of sweepstakes tic- kets from lotteries operated in 28 other countries, including Argentina, Cuba, Malta, British West Indies, Mexico, Germany, India, France, Brazil, etc. Are the sweepstake prizes fairly distributed? A fe* years ago after an extensive investi- get 'ln the Post Office discovered that: "Only a small percentage of the amount of money filched from the American public was returned in prizes. The list of winners published by the pro - motors and distributed far and wide contains many purely fic- titious names and other infor- mation. As these frauds were investigated, it was found that the promoters retained the lion's share of the returns and prac- tically all the balance filched from the public went to distri- butors and to agents as commis- sion." 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D.D,PRESCRIPTION ;AN BUTMAH SYRIA Banias Tripoli don4t LEBAN _O,IN.,I•��- tloifa ISt:AEL JORDAN UNDEFINED.. BOUNDARY IRKUIC Kermanshah LALt NAFT SAND AG,,HA JARI yttyGACH SARAN et RUMAIIA WAFRA Middle East oil fields produce ono - quarter (23 per cent) of the free world's supply. They contain more than two-thirds of the reserves of crude oil. in 1956, production reached 1,168,000,000 barrels. Every day, tankers load an average of 2,300,000 barrels at Persian Gulf ports and 800,000 barrels at Mediterranean coast ports. The Middle East provides 90 per cent of rho crude oil imported into Europe. Middle East's oil refining capacity, 571,000 barrels per day in 1946, was 1,056,000 in 1955. iillrl� �;s ABU HADRIYA AEQAIQ( r,HAWAR SAFANtYA r r -Ras Ta tura SAUDI ARABIA DUKH'N SAUDI ARABIA tl Oil Fields lax Refineries =0i1 Pipelines UNDEFINED BOUNDARY • ALL-OUT ARAB WAR CAN IMPERIL WEST'S OIL—Hundreds of millions of dollars invested by American, British, French and Dutch interests in the Middle East's, oil fields, shown on large Newsmap above, would be endangered by the spread of the Iraeli-Egyptian war throughout the Arob world.. Egypt has already seized the Shell, Anglo-Egyptian and FrenchnEgyptian com- panies' properties in Egypt itself. Twolargest oil firms in Egypt are America's Socony and the international American -Egyptian Company (in set map) and with widespread prospecting operations elsewhere in Egypt.