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I HI FOLKS, HERE AM IN MY MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TRIBUNE (j Sept. 7, 1952 Air War Continued from Page One mations flew escort up to 10,000 fret above the bombers. For the British flexibility was the key to defense. 1 SUNDAY BEST TO BRING YOU NEWS OF THE UPPER EACH SUNDAY ON THIS BOARD i0w WLL BE WRITTEN UPPER MIPWE5T i I tVIO MVO I ni SO WATCH FOR PATES ABOUT I WHICH YOU'VE BEEN GUESSING AND I'LL DO MY BEST TO SEE KNOWING IS I I 1 i I I jrjr I Tutalo had been with him and pointed out that Tutalo still was free. AS CHENKIN had surmised, Mclsaacs was well acquainted with the activities of the gang, Tutalo was the banker the money man who backed Vendituoli by advancing the cash used to buy the legitimate tickets from the tote machines and tn pay off the passers if they had a bad day at the track.

The gang sometimes lost on a race when the winning number was above the figure nine, high-est number on their set of dies, The ring always purchased tickets on horse No. 1 because lhat number contained the least amount of ink that Vendituoli had to remove. The buyer kept a small blotter cupped in the palm of his hand, which he pressed against the ticket the instant he- received it in order to prevent the ink from penetrating too deeply, so that less bleach would be required. With Mclsaacs' signed state, ment tying in Tutalo, Chenkin asked Providence police to picl up the man-about-town, but Tutalo had vanished, indicating that information was leaking to him. Chenkin hid out two nights watching the suspect's home.

The second night, Tutalo appeared and was placed under arrest. He admitted banking the fo All along the south coastal area controllers dispatched interceptors, moving the squadron into battle like pieces on a chess board. The attacks came on, hour after hour "convoys off Bournemouth'' "130 enemy bombers" "150 bandits approaching the Isle of Wight" "Portsmouth burning" But on Aug. 18, the first "great day" armed, as Church-Ill called it. Goering must have had indigestion that night when he counted Luftwaffe losses.

One hundred and eighty ot his planes were destroyed that day. In the 10 days since Aug. 8, when the battle opened, the score stood: Germany: lost 697 aircraft, Britain: lost 153 aircraft, with 60 pilots safe, although some were wounded. THE rAC'E was too hot. Goering gave his boys a recess for five days.

Art ir nf tbP hie show onened A DAY 4 1 5 v- item all day with the white flowers of parachutes. Buckingham palace was bombed. The Luftwaffe put large formations of fighters! over the const half an hour be- fore the bombers. Royal air force squadrons were drawn off to engage the fighte.s. Gradually, the Luftwaffe be- gan to reach London.

Their iiyiu wim riuiri's ann iiurri- anPS 'rom lJomlHn t0 the coast 1 of France. It was too high a price even for "supermen" to pay for a last The British charged too about Aug. 24. Goering altered losses were terrifying, but they his tactical formations. The were getting through to their; main attack was delivered on a target.

It might still be possihle wider front, 10 destroy London and win the Bomber formations were re- duced and were escorted by Meanwhile, the ruined ear-1 more fighters. Covering screens rasses of 883 German aircraft of fighters flew at a great littered the sunny beaches and! height. Boxes of fighters pro-! fields. At the same time, for the! tected the flanks of the bomber; first time since the great Informations, don fire of 1666, Londoners saw They began to pierce the Spit- their city on fire, the docks burn-: fire and Hurricane screen by ing. sheer weight of numbers.

Ob-j jans Bn( and Kurt jectives were the advance fight- rame oni fjyjng at a ratlo of er fields and aircraft factories. seven to one British flier. I Staff and ground forces of the On Sept. 15 came the climax 1 RAF worked day and night, 0 Act sleeping in ditches beyond their bombed and strafed fields. The 1 1 HLNDKKD German air-, German armada came pouring craft- 250 In the morning, 250 In over on the hour.

afternoon, fought a running i JrlnZmZTVrom over for German bombers. Prom over the entrance to the dining rooms came the crackle of the loud speaker as operations room i switched on. "Operations calling Tartan.imU(h Ior sutl1 a show: 1 Ger-I aircrait lauea to return Readiness. Readiness. off." They dropped their knives and forks.

They ran to the lor ries ouisioe. at me uisix-isni point, the loudspeaker was call-, Ing again: "Tartan squadron scramble. Patrol base. 10,000 feet." A FEW MINUTES later, Tar tan leader was calling back to stitchinriman am 6WP tracks, Aqueduct and Jamaica, Sullivan consulted his records, which showed that two arrests for presenting altered tickets had been made during the spring and summer racing season, one at each track. THE FIRST occurred April 19, 1950, at Jamaica.

A cashier was about to pay off on a win ner when he noticed a slight de viation in color about the numbers of the tickets. The suspect was taken to the track office, and the number alterations showed upon both tickets. Protesting his Innocence, the man presented identification papers showing he was Norman Sarkisian, Providence, R. em ployed as a highly-paid stone set ter with a costume jewelry firm. Sarkisian said he knew nothing about the forged tickets and they did not belong to him.

A stranger had a sheaf of winning tickets in different price ranges in his hands, Sarkisian said, and asked Sarkisian to help get them out faster by cashing in the $10 tickets. ARRESTED and held for the grand jury. Sarkisian agreed to sign a waiver of immunity and presented proof he was steadily employed at better than $200 a week. The grand jury did not vote an indictment. The second arrest was made June 24 at Aqueduct after a cashier accepted and approved a ticket calling for a $177.50 payoff.

As the clerk got up from his stool to get change, the man waiting for the money bolted away. Sensing something was wrong, the cashier sounded an alarm, and the fleeing man was caught. Inspection of the winning ticket revealed it had been altered. THE PRISONER, who gave his name as Angus Mclsaacs, Providence, offered a story similar to that told by Sarkisian. Mclsaacs said that he met a man whom he knew only as "Frenchy," who requested him to cash the ticket.

When he asked Frenchy why he didn't cash it himself, the other man replied that several of his creditors were at the track and he did not want them to see him collecting cash. The explanation sounded logical to Mclsaacs, who admitted he was out on bail on larceny charges in two different cities. Asked to explain why he had run away, Mclsaacs said that when Frenchy turned the ticket over to him, he told him to get away if there was any trouble. District Attorney Sullivan RACES base with the Thames winding i bravely pressed home attacks nu. 9nnnn wtiwiih great skill, attacking in shire plates parked opposite the Narragansett race track.

When police arrived, a radio in the car was tuned in to a station broadcasting race results. The second race at Narragansett was then under way. SEATED in the front seat of the car were a man and a young blonde. On the front seat was a $10 ticket on the second race at Narracansett. The number of the horse had been removed by a bleach.

A second ticket was on the floor. Also on the front scat was a small kit bag which contained three ink stamping pads, several bottles of va.ious colored inks, a small bottle containing a household bleach, a bottle of pure vanilla extract, vials containing different colored dyes, five more $10 tickets on the second race with the number deleted, three small blotters and two razor blades. Wrapped in a brown paper bag in the woman's purse was a set of printing dies, numbered one to nine, closely resembling the dies used by the tote machines. The man was identified as Frank Vendituoli, on parole 011 a car theft charge. The blonde gave her name as Ina Frick.

THE WORKING of the ring was clearer now. At least one member shuttled between the track and Vendituoli, who was parked outside the grounds. He removed the number before the race actually got under way and as soon as he received a flash on the winner he printed the correct number on the ticket, using the different colored dyes and inks to touch up the bleached spots. The messenger brought the tickets back into the track where a passer cashed them. Vendituoli and his dies were safe on the outside if the passer was caught.

Finkerton agents succeeded in getting Ina Frick to admit Vendituoli had forged the $50 tickets at Belmont and was known as Spicola. Ina Frick denied receiving any money from the gang for her services. A daughter of a former police chief in Massachusetts, she said she was in love with Vendituoli. who was a married man with four children. Vendituoli tried to clear her by telling police, "She did it because she was with me and I guess she likes me." CHENKIN learned of Vendi-tuoli's arrest but his hopes of clearing up his two cases were blocked.

The prisoner denied forging any of the tickets at Jamaica and Aqueduct, and neither Vendituoli nor Ina had mentioned Tutalo's name. Chenkin praised the prisoner, telling him how smart he had been, and then idly asked if the other had kept the dies with him at all times. This was the one and only question that Vendituoli answered and he didn't realize that it had been loaded against him. He boasted he never had let the dies out of his sight, that he was too smart for that, and had even slept with them under his pillow. When Vendituoli boasted that he never had let the dies out of his possession, he virtually ad mitted being the person who forged the tickets at Aqueduct and Jamaica.

FBI tests showed all tickets were forged with the same dies. Now Chenkin had to determine Tutalo's role and also identify the other three men who had been at the Edison with Mclsaacs, Tutalo and Vendituoli. Chenkin informed Mclsaacs that he knew Vendituoli and checked on th( status of the charges against Mclsaacs. Unlike Sarkisian, the prisoner had not volunteered to come before the grand jury and had been indicted on two forgery counts. He was out on bail awaiting trial.

The prosecutor studied the tickets Sarkisian and Mclsaacs attempted to pass. It appeared the same set of dies had been used. Both men had been arrested before the Baltimore company discovered a forgery ring was In operation. Sullivan felt certain that there was a connection between these forged tickets and the ring. "Send for George Chenkin," he directed his secretary.

Chenkin was the last person anybody would suspect of being a detective. Claiming five feet, five inches In height, he looks shorter, and has a hoarse rasping voice that makes him sound more like a shady race-track habitue than a law-enforcement official. Sullivan persuaded him to serve as chief special Investigator. QUESTING for a lead, Chenkin visited Belmont track in adjoining Nassau county. Police had made an arrest in late May when Antonio Puopolo, Newark, N.

tried to cash two altered $50 tickets worth $625. They learned he had stayed at a Manhattan hotel. Hotel employes recalled that-a couDle named Spicola had been with him and requested an ad- ioininz room. Their description were those of Rinaldi and the blonde in New Orleans. Up to this point, Puopolo had' been insisting a stranger asked him to cash the But when he was brought to the hotel and identified, he admitted he had been hired to pass the forged tickets.

Puopolo said he knew nothing about Spicola except that he had heard him called "Tonto." The repeated bobbing up of Providence addresses convinced Chenkin that city was headquarters for the ring. Since Tutalo's cafe had been on a slip of paper taken from Puopolo, Chenkin decided first that he wanted to know more about John Tutalo. Had Tutalo been in New York at the time the altered tickets were presented at Jamaica and Aqueduct? WHEN CHENKIN went through a hotel registration list for June, he found Tutalo's name. What made it even more interesting was the fact that the other had checked out of the hotel the day Mclsaacs had been arrested at Aqueduct track. Tutalo had been in 616 with a man named Joseph Lorenzo of Providence.

William Hefner of Dunellen, N. and John Conte of Providence had been in 602, while George P. Carter and Jack Smith shared 606. AH charges were paid by Tutalo, who had checked out owing $90 for food and liquor consumed by the six men. Chenkin visited New York police headquarters, where he asked for signature cards signed by Sarkisian and Mclsaacs when arrested.

NONE MATCHED Sarkisian's handwriting, but Mclsaacs was the man in 606 who signed into the hotel as George P. Carter of Providence. It appeared Chenkin's deductions were correct, and Tutalo was a member of the forged ticket ring. Meanwhile there had been another development in the case. On Sept.

8, Pawtucket police received a telephone tip to examine a car with New Hamp kp. "There they are-Tallyho! Twelve o'clock above us. Com-, Ing toward us. Going in. Head-j on attack." 1 Production costs for Goering for Act II were rising; his! Bquadrons got to within 10 miles; of London, but in 35 major at- tacks during Act II, he lost 562! aircraft.

British losses were 219 planes, I but 132 pilots were saved. They died, It might be said, who were too young to have ever lived. And those who lived through the first two acts of Goering's production were never quite so young again. For in the first two phases of this great air battle, 4,523 fighter patrols were flown from Aug. 8 to Sept.

5, an average of 158 a day. Pilot officers became squadron leaders In a matter of days as the combat life span of fighter pilots decreased every 24 hours. I ft By LDWAKIJ I. KADI.V Author, "Headline Crimes" "ORSK RACING is called the (lf it m. port of thugs, racketeers and riffraff from all criminal walks of lif in addition to the honest.

decent people who also attend the races. Iost cll'bs, avail th.cm" oves of the protective Finkerton's National Detective agency, whose blacklist of undesirables is extraordinarily long. The Finkerton men, both in uniform and in plainclothes, are there not only to protect the le'at the.raccSi but the track itself, The reason Is obvious, as the golden flood that pours through the betting windows is a sight calculated to start agile criminal minds working overtime. ROBBERY, of course, is out, since all money is transported in armored trucks under heavy guard. And the Introduction of the famous foolproof totalizer ma- chine at almost all pari-mutuel tracks has ended intricate plots to riir odds i The "tote" machines auto- matieally record each betting ticket sold and at the same time compute 1he correct odds on every horse in a race, in accordance with the amount of money wagered.

Tracks lease them from the American Totalisator Co. of Baltimore, which is responsible for the payoff on all winning tickets. After payment, the tickets are forwarded to company where they are audited and checked against the number of tickets sold. Not all winning tickets are cashed on every race, because of the vagaries of human nature. SOMK WINNERS tear up their tickets and scatter them to the four winds, not realizing until too late that the horse they selected had won.

Others lose their receipts and then can't find them in the litter of discarded stuhs that piles up quickly in the stands. It is impossible for more win ning ncKets to be cashed in i than sold. But officials of the company were informed by auditors that the Impossible was haopening bppn Baltimore than were recorded sold. somebody had devised a chines. Experts with ultraviolet and infrared lamps began inspecting individually hundreds of thousands of winning stubs from all over the country.

Soon they had set aside a respectable number of tickets. Nothing had gone wrong with the tote machines; a clever group had learned how to remove the number from a genuine ticket without discoloring or spoiling the specially treated pasteboard, and was substitut ing the number of the winning it AT THE had been paid out on these tickets. I Altering the number on a bet- ting ticket is not new at the races and many arrests are made for such attempts each track season. Most attempts are fairly clumsy. What was new in this rase was the fact that the forgeries were so good they had passed through many hands without once being detected.

Evidently the set of dies contained just nine numbers, since the detected forged tickets only ran from one through nine. If a horse bearing a higher number won, no attempt had been made to cash a doctored ticket. Finkerton investigators were assigned to run the forgers down. There were no leads to follow beyond the forged tickets. CASHIERS had no recollection of who might have cashed the stubs and it was impossible to subject each one presented at the payoff window to a lengthy test while hundreds of impatient winners were wait- lnl- are scheduled at most tracks approximately half an nour apart ana aunnjj inai brief period the majority of winning tickets are cashed and bets on the next race must be placed.

Payoff windows are thrown open the moment official results are announced. The forgers had to purchase the genuine tickets, eliminate the original number, imprint the number of the winner, and be ready to cash It in within that half-hour time limit. It was obvious that it had to be the work of a gang. A slight lead was picked up at the Fair Grounds tracks in New Orleans, where records showed that on New Year's day several altered tickets had been turned in on different races. An arrest had been made the following afternoon when the owner of a well-known inn in town attempted to cash two tickets on a race held the previous day.

The pair he offered at the window for late payoffs had the numbers slightly off-center and were spotted immediately by the cashier. QUESTIONED by track police, the businessman explained he had bought the two tickets from a customer at a substantial reduction in face value because the man said he had to leave town in a hurry and could not return to the track to cash them in himself. The customer said he had been called awav from the track unexpectedly before the race was run. The die was the same as on perfectly-forged tickets. It was 1 evident that the wily forger had spoiled a pair and had tricked the other into buying the w-orth- less tickets.

The innkeeper said the man had been staying at the hotel with an attractive blonde. They had signed the register as Mr. and Mrs. John Rinaldi. He described ihe man as fairly tall and husky, with a swarthy com- a confidential mnnrt on nnor.

ations of the ring was sent to -1-- -r- pubic officials with race tracks under their jurisdiction. One was received by District Attorney Charles P. Sullivan of Queens County in New York City, the home of the city's two race 9. Ml gery ring and said Sarkisian had been a passer for the gang. Chenkin's investigation also proved that William Calgano, a member of the grand jury that did not indict Sarkisian, was part of the gang.

Chenkin has demonstrated there still is no sure way to beat the races. SEXT SI SDAY: "File o. A. K17S0," the cane it took three yenrt to 'break." Tots Lead Drive to Make Hindi India's Tongue NEW DELHI, INDIA-(Reu-ters) Children are the spearhead in India's ambitious scheme to make Hindi the national language of this nation and thereby one of the major languages of the world. Educational authorities say that, through the children, they will meet the 15-year deadline set by the constitution for adoption of Hindi as the official tongue.

The project has been going on two years. English still remains the medium for all proceedings In parliament, for communications between state governments, for court judgments and for most of the higher studies, S.D. Vacation Spots Have Peak Season Spffiil tn ibe Minneapolis Trlbin STL'RGLS, S. D. South Dakota vacation areas have had a record season this summer.

More than two million persons visited the Black Hills and Badlands, an increase of 10 to 20 per cent over last year. At the Homestake Mine at Lead, at Hot Springs, at Spear fish and Rapid City, vacationers topped previous records. More than one million persons are estimated to have visited Custer State park. More than 800,000 went to see the Mount Rushmore memorial, and about 35,000 registered at the Mines museum in Rapid City. Flax Day Menu: Free Pancakes Sixtlal tn th Minnfipolli Tribonf WTNDOM, MINN.

It will be Flax day in Windom Thursday. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey Minn.) and Gov. Val Peterson of Nebraska will speak la the afternoon.

Shirley Hildreth, relgnlnf Flax queen, will crown a new queen during the day. A 70-unit parade is scheduled at 2:30 p.m. It will feature 27 visiting queens from Minnesota. Visitors will receive free pan-cakes, as well as free entertainment. The celebration will be climaxed by a fireworks show.

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Winston Church- ill, who spent the morning in the operations rooms of No. 11 group, which bore the brunt of the attack, was seen for once to follow history with his cigar unlit. In the afternoon more than 200 individual combats took place, German formations were again instantly broken up by superior tactics and aggressiveness. While the fight lasted, Germans were destroyed at the rate of two aircraft a minute. Each RAF pilot had his own swift decisions to make, and none was found wanting.

Their reports were laconic: "The whole of the nose, Including the pilot's cockpit, was shot away SUCH WAS the end of Hitler's dream. Resolute, ruthless, triumphant, the fighter pilots of the royal air foree won the great victory on that day, although the battle dwindled on Into October and gradually died away. The great deliverance had been effected, and the retreating remnants of the shattered German air armada never again struck at full strength during daylight hours. Of those members of the RAF who fought the battle that first, turnf the World War Churchill said: confliet was so, mh owpd so many to so few. While In the spirit of aggressive courage and odds cheerfully accepted, one fighter pilot, typifying the attitude of a handful of young men, said: "That Winnie, he's a lad.

He must have got wind of our tabs at the local pub." Britain Harvests Record Barley Crop LONDON Special) As most of Britain basked in sunshine after the Ten minutes after Squadron "I saw tracer flying past my landed It was called to alert. left wing and saw a Messer-They were scrambled over Dun-; schmitt 109 attack me geness at 16.000 feet. They had "i looked for more trouble and been on alert since dawn. It was saw a Messerschmitt 110. I at-efternoon now.

tacked and closed to about 20 Thirty Messerschmltts came i feet down on top of them. Two Spit- "I gave him everything I fires went down like torches to- had ward the sea foaming whitely against the Dover cliffs PILOTS' NERVES were splintering Landing accidents indicated what was happening smashed undercarts burned- out brakes. Punctures bad landings scrambling with propellers at the wrong pitch. Some squadrons hardly could go on One wing lost 35 pilots In 30 days. In one squadron only three officers and two sergeants survived the months of August and September The curtain came down on Act II.

time felt Goering was merely working according to a timetable. THE CURTAIN ROSE on Act III. The time: Sept. 7. Scene: London.

This was the crux of the battle. Goering still believed superior numbers could win the day. Enemy dive bombers struck at the coast, to draw off the first line of British fighter defenses, but they were not to be fooled. Waves of bombers, wings glit- tering at 15,000 feet, struck at Complete With Universal Sew Machine Attachment That Makes: Attach Zlppri Qiilts Ovtrtait $em, ate, Butte Holf Swi or luttont Darin Mtndi horse, using a set of hand dies plcxion, his black hair streaked that matched perfectly the num-! with gray. hers imprinted by the tote ma- He thought Rinaldi wras in his chines.

late 30s or early 40s. rnni cmv i- T'le woman, a natural ash-COLLISION with cashiers jWond hcr 20 fiIender was ruled out. I orged tickets smartv RInaldi were popping up at manyhad cnecked out immediateIy tracks and in varying denomina- after selling the tickctS- VIKING SUPPLY 2321 BLOOMINGTON AVE. CALL PA. 3561 SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS CALL HYLAND 9144 OR WRITI VIKING SUPPLY CO.

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Thirty-eight were virtually cleared of cereal major daylight attacks were de- crops. In the north, the harvest livered In three weeks. began a few days later. In Morning, noon and night, the Wales, which caught the full German air force battered at the force of the August rains, Inland fighter airports. The another two weeks of warm, blue field of the sky, blossomed dry, weather Is needed.

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