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...Sing Tong is a business, social and fraternal secret organization of American-Chinese whose several thousand members usually get themselves into the papers only by periodic squabblings with their rivals, the On Leongs. Last week, the Hip Sing Tong made news in another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework...
Jimmy Wong introduced the agent to his friend Ko Wing Chuck, treasurer of the Hip Sing Tong. The agent bought a generous supply of opium and went to Chicago. Here the members of the Hip Sing Tong were so entranced by his personality and appetite for opium that, when he capped his friendly gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing...
...until the agents had spent $10,000 and almost two years laying their plans did Government officials give the signal to draw in the net last week. New York and Brooklyn provided the biggest haul-five Tong members, ten of their white friends, and one extraneous Chinese. Two Tongmen were arrested in Chicago, one Yee Haim, ex-national president of the Hip Sings in Pittsburgh, two in San Francisco, and two-Chin Joo Hip and Chin Joo Hip Jr.-in Butte. Perimeter of the wide circle of underworld associations of which Chin Joo Hip was the hub appeared...
...years before (Class of 1923) Princeton had had a Siamese-popular little Boon Pitrachat, who won his letter playing soccer. And even Siamese princes are not rare in the U. S.: Prince Swasti Pradish Svasti graduated from West Point; Prince Nondiyavat Svasti from Georgetown last June; Prince Tong Ti Kayou went to San Francisco in 1928 to attend high school and learn baseball; Prince Arjuna Svasti to Yale in 1930; Prince Chukratong Tong-Vai is now studying entomology at Cornell; Prince Debriddhi Devakul is studying agriculture at Boscowen, N. H., supervised as are 22 other Siamese by Murray Sheehan...
...July 4 game against the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club: 12 to 4. The Amateur Baseball Club, oldest U. S. organization in Shanghai, started in 1872. Composed originally of derelict sailors and bartenders, it played frequently against the Presbyterian Mission at Sunkiangfu, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tong Shao...