Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-03-14

I McLaughlin-Well, because the
chief wouldn't stand for it. Sc
with it, he wants to 60 on down
TO the sherff's Office. Indis-
tlnct) So I told EN-, l said
You tell EN- I'm not inter-
ested. GndistlnctD That if we
/, can't do this thing along-this
thing right, why a, we'll forget
/ Iabout tia. tIndistinct.l
Langley-What did Archer say
, when you talked to him?
McLaughlin-He a-well "a
he wants to move-he wants tc
go.
Langley-And what did you
say to him?
Mclaughlin UndiStinct.
langley mean. how does he
take the explanation from you?
: Doe he
McLaughlin-Yeah. he says he
can't go until Jim tells him to.
Langley-Yeah, we'll has he
got confidence in that Jim OF
does he think he's horsing him
around?
McLaughlin-Well, I don't
know. with it. l al think every
thing that he's been doing up
there the last couple of months
years, why a, he's went along
that line that
1 Langley-Has he done much
iup there?
McLaughlin-Well, as little
that's been done in town, he's
done. This Dahl and Penne
Langley-Well tell him l want
my eighty-five hundred when
you talk to him some more. You
can tell him that. too The sob,
he-you guys can have the
eighty-five hundred.
(Maloney laughs in the back
ground
/ Langley don't want it, but
I don't want that dizzy
acting the way he's acting. Il
laughs. that's -.
4 Mclaughlin Cindistinctl-You
can't tell on the Chief Of Police
Langley-Yeah,
Mclaughlin tindistinct1 -You
know. any time you're closed fol
fishing you can't go ahead anc
(indistinct.
Langley-He's Just lying Il
you. that's all He's just a =
for you to talk to a guy thai
don't know how TO be honest anc
square. you know. It's a damned
pity.
Persons, places and events
discussed.
The Swede" "a Portland
bootlegger and after hours
club operator.
Tom Thomas E Maloney.
Elkins--Jim Elkins.
Langley-You see, there's an.
! other way YOU can
McLaughlin-With it, it's the
, only way to handle it, to curb it
. is through the police department
Langley-To my way of think.
in. IS this. that he can max,
: all the money he needs if he doe,
this-I can see where the punch
boards--is such a big PROPOSE
ton, that's difficult to handle
but get the Swede goin' and ge
this poker goin down there anC
II you can get guy TO come
in and to run the book and gel
a book goin. why. he'll between
those things Tom oughta pici
up pretty good money. tn b,
the only book in town
McLaughlin-That's right.
Langley-That amounts to |
damned.
McLauehlin-That's right.
Langley know damned goot
and we'll that when l was bettin
l bet six to FIVE and when 20,
get stuck you'll have-you'll be
the damn 10 per cent. you're 81
damn crazy in the head thai
you'll take 10 per cent for it jus
to get into the action.
McLaushlin-You got to ge'
the action.
Langley-Yeah.
McLaughlin-That's right.
Langley-To get even. So 4
he starts it off. charging every.
body the 10 percent it'll be al
right and. as l say. if he start,
them of and if it don't go he
can close down. And, but-anC
he's got to make it "a Langley
continuing !. > OF course. ito
have to be cut up a lot Of ways
he'd have to bring in some guy
to run il. but this town could
could stand a pretty good book
you know And l take that card
room down there and-dowr
around-he'S done pretty good
YOU know. Well. Tom-Tom gets
all stirred up and he gets UNI
duly concerned about things
He's out frontin' the damned
he gets out in front for the
uh--for the union. Well, so we
should sit back and calculate
about it, but if they make a
change, fine and dandy and it's
the Transfers business. but
i have Transfers business
see. Here's the way l feel about
it, Joe, the Transfers have been
good to me, but l don't want
people thinking that the Teams
tiers own me and yet on the
other--I feel.
Mclaughlin tindistinct) NOR
ally.
Langley. Yes. Now. on the
other hand, I'm a stand up guy
that's uh--although l don't want
to try to dictate what they're
dom. ! don't want to see EN-
dom something that's going tc
.hurt EN-. 1t hurts them and
then, OF course. indirectly it
1T hurts me. But you've got to-
you've got to--you've thought it