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Dutch & Lucky. On the New Deal tide Jimmy rode high. His pockets crammed with money, he fronted for an army commanded by a young man named Arthur Flegenheimer, better known to his fellow racketeers and murderers as Dutch Schultz. While Schultz and his mob prospered in bootleg whisky and the numbers racket, Hines provided the necessary protection. Uncooperative policemen were shifted to faraway beats, district attorneys obligingly quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz...
...anyway, and it's too dangerous ... So the only way you're going to do any good is cards, high dice. Like I told you all along, cards and book, and then if you get into the pinballs and punchboards, that's all right. That bootleg joint, if it'll-if it will go if you can make anything. That's all right. I don't see any reason to close that down...
...wiry (5 ft. 6 in., 130 lbs.), Texas-born family man and Episcopal churchgoer, has faced hazards before. In 1947 he was threatened with death for writing a series that led to conviction of an out-of-state gang that had tried to take over Oklahoma's bootleg industry. Another Bulloch series ended with the biggest liquor and gambling raids in Oklahoma history. In 1952 Bulloch was warned again, and the Mayes County prosecutor was killed during a gambling investigation on which they had worked together. After he reported buying absentee ballots simply by posing as a candidate. Oklahoma...
Satisfaction for $15. Bootlegging syndicates, reported Mathis, are so well entrenched "that a police officer who is too diligent in enforcing the liquor laws in the best dry areas can lose his job." In one county, he found, a $4,500-a-year sheriff was offered $18,000 for protection. In another he discovered bootleg liquor stores that guarantee payment of customers' fines if they are arrested with their purchases within a three-mile "safety zone." Said Mathis: "Gangsterism is a fact...
...United Drys. The state was dry when it entered the union in 1907, and has remained militantly dry since; six repeal referendums have been defeated (as much through the bootleggers' efforts as the W.C.T.U.'s). Today there are no open saloons, but a $100 million-a-year bootleg business will supply 400 varieties of liquor at reasonable prices to anyone who wants them. On the other hand, the state loses $15 million each year-in tax revenues, industries refuse to locate in Oklahoma because they think employees will be discontented, and small wars are erupting between bootleggers...