Dixie, Doxie & Dewey

Manhattan tabloids shivered deliciously all last week. A bigwig racketeer whom the police had been after for six months had been captured in bed with a red-headed showgirl, which is the sort of story that gives tabloid editors the courage to go on. The racketeer was Julius Richard ("Dixie") Davis, lawyer for Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer and, since Mr. Flegenheimer's death by violence in 1935, the head of the biggest, crookedest, most profitable racket in the U. S.--the Harlem numbers game. The showgirl was Hope Dare (Rose Ricker), whose chief professional appearance was in 1934 in Life Begins at 8:40.

Members of the staff of New York's District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, who is gradually emerging into national prominence as a righteous combination of St. George and Charlie Chan, at 3 one morning last week rapped on the door of a shabby apartment in West Philadelphia. "Open up," they said, "this is the law."

Said a timid voice inside: "Did you say you're the law?" It was the voice of a Mr. George Weinberg, who was living with Dixie and his doxie in their hideout. Mr. Dewey had been looking around for Mr. Weinberg, too.

All three got hastily into their clothes and were taken to Philadelphia's City Hall. Dixie's bail set a Philadelphia record: $300,000. Next day, as legal haggling about extradition began, detectives let Miss Dare and Mr. Davis have luncheon together. A tray was sent in from a restaurant nearby.

A year ago Thomas Dewey, at the height of his campaign to bust the big racketeering trusts, descended upon Harlem with devastating effect, scaring the wits out of most of the bankers and collectors. Most of the busy executives of the industry left the city. Six months later Dixie Davis and eleven others were indicted. Dixie Davis had a $5,000 reward put on his head.

After Mr. Dewey gets Dixie, doxie and Weinberg back to Manhattan, tabloid editors expect a trial as spectacular as the trial last year of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano for his prostitute trust.

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