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| Charges Crime 'Serious,' | 65 m erious, | | g I D U Cl ?' rew Urges Cleanup _ Cleanup of an "extremely serious" ; the City of Toronto had 1,300 effi-- crime situation in Toronto and on.|(~iom polnice: he thought interference g tario in the past few months which |PY Provincials would be an insult "suggests a close tieeup between y o ('?pablp .Toront,o force. But S & * Provincial Police would co--operate gambling rings and receivers of | if asked to do so. stolen jewels and precious metals"| Col. Drew declared he was not was urged in the Legislature last| Speaking of "persecuting" casual night by Opposition Leader George | small gamblers, but he felt organ-- Drew. He called on Premier Gordon |ized gambling must be stamped out « Conant, as Attorney--General, to re.| and that thefts indicated there must move any limitations that might |bhe some "fence" with some other exist on his "vice squad" so that it |Occupation to make an organization | could operate within municipalities| Possible to handle such rich booty. ; to assist their police, Gambling on a racketeering scale s Premier Conani seplied that since| must be stopped with the other vice | the Provincial Police had only 741| rings that went with it, he saia. | Imr'n and some veteran guards and | -- Unless the situation were ruthless--| 'ly stamped out, Col. Drew declared, | conditions might approximate Chi-- cago, with no regard for human life. Provincial police should not stop at municipal boundaries and give rack-- | eteers sanctuary there. I \__Col. Drew wanted to know why a charge was withdrawn against a man | in Toronto said to have been the out-- : let for jewels while the man who stole them was now doing seven years in St. Vincent de Paul Peni-- s tentiary, near Montreal. The man convicted had made a statement naming the outlet as in Toronto., he said. Premier Conant said it would be | an insult to Toronto police if the | 10--or--12--man -- anti--gambling -- squad went in to do its work. But, he said, on Sept. 11, 1942, Staff Inspector Doyle of the Provincial anti--gam-- j * bling squad conferred with Chief of | Police Draper on reports of gambling , in a large downtown hotel and on | Nov, 16 Inspector Doyle conferred i with Inspector Vernon of the Toron-- to police regarding the same hotel. . IAIlPr that "he was quite justified in | leaving it to the Toronto police lforcv." Premier Conant declared. To! | police Toronto with the Provincial | | force, he felt, was "unthinkable." i | Beverage Room Tour Planned | 1 By Henry as Gordon's Guest | | _ Liquor Board Chairman St. Clair;jdon. "But let me point out 1hat, | Gordon and George S. Henry (Prog. |hundreds of persons who complain |Con., East York) will make a tour about certain things have no first ; of city beverage rooms to see condi-- | hand knowledge of the matters they | ! tions for themselves, it was decided | are complaining about. Why should | last night in the Legislature. we take the word of these persons | ' An invitation to visit the hotels | when we have officials in the pre-% was extended by Mr. Gordon to Mr. |mises almost every day and night?" | Henry following a debate on the '"These articles were written by a | beverage--room situation in the city.| man who was there and he drew a | The invitation was promptly accept-- | very vivid picture," said Mr. Henry. | ed by Mr. Henry, and a date will be| "Will my honorable friend agree | set. to take a night and go dpvyn with; Mr. Henry referred to the series|me and see the conditions in of articles on beverage rooms which | beverage rooms?" as ked Mr.| appeared some months ago in The | Gordon. t o ies | Globe and Mail, and questioned the | "All right, I will," came the reply Liquor Board chairman as to wheth--|from Mr. Henry. "If I recommend er any action had been taken to |to you afterward that two or three clean up the conditions alleged to |authorities be cancelleq. wll'l you exist. follow my recommendations?" | "Did my honorable friend read | "I will give it every considera-- the articles?" asked Mr. Henry. tion," was the Liquor Board chair-- "Some of them," replied Mr. Gor--|}man's reply.