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...Divinites claim to number 100,000, one-quarter of them white. In Los Angeles last week, G-men were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal had dug up a lurid story about the brown "God's" chief West Coast "angel," broken it to the G-men and was playing it for all it was worth...
Thus last week no transatlantic line had its "Coronation sailings" yet solidly booked in any class. Out-of-town agents, by paying a small deposit, are permitted to book and hold any number of cabins in dummy names until about ten days before a given ship sails, do not lose this deposit in any case as it stands to their credit if the reservations are given up. This sort of speculative booking had by last week pretty well "filled" the Queen Mary, Paris and Bremen-all of which sail from Manhattan at just the right time for last-minute Coronation...
...Highest-priced labor leader in the U. S., President Petrillo draws $500 a week, directs an organization that handles $250,000 a year. Most of this comes from the 8,500 members who pay yearly dues of $16. "Standbys" (commercial radio musicians) are assessed $17 for each broadcast. Out-of-town musicians have to pay up when they play in Chicago. In 1933 his organization was prosperous enough for President Petrillo to build a $600,000 two-story building, to panel his office in red cedar, carpet it with a rich Oriental rug. Members of his organization pay their dues...
...successful numbers frauds occurred in the Curb's stock sales total. A person who looked like a regular Curb employe marched calmly in to the waiting newsmen, posted faked figures. The newsmen dashed out to report the total before the real one was released. When out-of-town numbers bankers were more innocent, New York racketeers used to take advantage of time differences caused by daylight saving to play a number after it had actually been published...
...feud between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization, was not unanimously represented at the conference. With A. F. of L.'s President William Green leading the Council's Labor section, C. I. O. Chairman John L. Lewis announced himself out-of-town, resting. But some 900 representatives of Labor and small business turned up, sat down for a two-day talkfest about Government regulation of Business...