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...Rifles put together at random from the hodgepodge of Universal parts worked well, showed an accuracy worthy of precision target guns.* After putting six years of intensive effort, $140,000 of his family's and investors' money into his inventions, he had at last hit the jackpot with $4,600,000 of orders on his books. This neat backlog consisted mostly of East Indian orders for rifles, machine guns and parts for several foreign makes, plus a small but promising Latin-American army order for Johnson rifles...
Last week, as it does with most mugs, the law had caught up with one of the tough taipans of the Shanghai underworld. On his way to the U.S. and a Federal penitentiary was Edward Thomas Riley, otherwise known as "Jackpot Riley" and "Slot Machine Riley," who had ridden high for a decade, for four years had been the Mr. Big of Shanghai gambling...
...rise of Jackpot Riley reads like a W. R. Burnett novel. He saw Shanghai first in the '20s, a sailor off a U.S. Yangtze Patrol sloop, drinking in the dives along "Blood Alley." When he finished his hitch in the Navy he went back to the U.S., soon landed in the Oklahoma State penitentiary under the name of Johnny Becker, with a 25-year sentence for attempted highjacking. Two years later he escaped from jail, headed again for Shanghai...
SPILL THE JACKPOT - A. A. Fair -Morrow ($2). How to milk a slot machine is one of the valuable tips herein offered by Bertha Cool and Donald Lam, hired not to find a vanished bride. But they find her after the No. 1 Milker's sidekick is murdered...
...impression of dragging, so that it never during its two long acts settles down to the evening of pure fun the audience expects. However, the material is there now, and by the time it hits New York, the show should be well enough ironed out to hit the jackpot...