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...small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police in the Hollywood area recently had to clean up an outbreak of car "jockeys''-youths who jumped on the running board, wiped the windshield with...
...York, a city of extremes, is characteristically the home of the most virulent form of this latest and most irritating petty graft, the car-watching racket...
Thoroughly incensed at this climax of a long series of complaints, Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine declared war on the car-watching racket, sent 25 rookies in plain clothes into Hell's Kitchen with orders to arrest adult car-watchers, take urchins to the Juvenile Aid Bureau...
...named by the grand jury was Philadelphia's Mayor, S. Davis Wilson, who was last to testify before it. In 1934 he objected to the proposed Philadelphia Co. reorganization as ''a gigantic racket engineered by insiders." Subsequently he approved it, became a director. Also omitted from the true bills were Joseph E. Widener, who was a Philadelphia Co. director, and Clerk Pennington who signed the worthless bonds...
...cleaning latrines, barbering, cobbling, laundering and Cremating. If an orthodox caste Hindu chances to touch an Untouchable he must cleanse himself by bathing and he is socially ostracized by other caste Hindus until he has been purified by Hindu priests. Their charges for this amount to a pious racket...