| | ‘ | HW 45760 NO 92-390/lam _ racetracks, fJFK Act 6 (4) Nola Printing Company went out of business in September, 1961, none of the bookmakers in the New Orleans area are receiving out of state race results on the same day that races are being run. All three have pointed out that because of the fact that no race wire service is available in the New Orleans area, they are unable to past post book- makers in this area, They advised that one of the essential elements to a successful past posting operation is that the victim bookmaker must be handling considerable action and be busily occupied in his profession, Since there is no race wire service in the New Orleans area at this time, the business of the bookmakers has been seriously affected with the result that they are unable to past Post these books. In this connection; [said he has traveled throughout Louisiana, both before and after September, 1961 and has found that the same conditions exist in such areas as Monroe, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, Louisiana. He explained that without a race wire service in the Louisiana area, bookmaking business is 'dead"' and as long as it remains "dead" he cannot successfully past post bookmakers, a PCI who is active as a bookmaker at 952 Jefferson Highway, which is Manuel's Restaurant — and Bar, advised on May 22, 1962 and July 13, 1962 that there is no service in the New Orleans area providing the identities and the mutual_prices of winners of horse races at out of state f—  ktatea that there has been no race wire service since Nola Printing Company terminated its operations in September, 1961. He stated that this has greatly affected his business and the business_of other bookmakeérs in the New Orleans Metropolitan area, stated that he relies on the daily racing form and the two New Orleans newspapers for his out of state race results and pays his customers who make winning bets on the day following the races, after he has ‘read the race results in these publications. He stated that eg =~] DoclId: 32290110 Page 7
IJFK Act 6 (4) NO 92-390/lam op this same procedure is used by all the other’ bookmakers in the area. He said that his volume of business prior to | September, 1961 was so large that he is positive that if race wire service was available in the New Orleans area, it _would be offered to him; therefore he. is’ pogitive that no such service is available. _ a an active bookmaker in Jefferson Par , LoUisiana, advised on April 16 and September 12, 1962, that there is no race wire service in the New Orleans area and there has been none since Nola Printing Company terminated its service in September, 1961. Recently, information has come to the attention of this office concerning two sources through which some bookmakers and betters can obtain the identities of winning | horses at out of state racetracks, fy .* @n June 6, 19625} rotors to above,. advised that within @ pas ew weeks he had been able to obtain some of the winning horses at. out of state racetracks between 45 minutes to 14 hours after the races were run, He said he contacted. three different individuals in the city who occasionally would have the identities of - winning. horses only. These individuals would not have the . identities of place and show horses_nor would they have the | paramutual prices on these horses, | Stated ‘the source | of this information was an employee o e New Orleans Times | | Picayune Newspaper who obtained the race information from the | Associated Press Sports Ticker. ‘This employee would then go out to a barroom located at the corner of St.. Charles and Poydras Streets which is near the Times Picayune uilding where he would make the information available. [~~ [sald the information was never aygilable after 4:00 Pil each day which indicated to him that the employee of the newspaper got off from work at that time. He said that the racing information provided through this source was not complete--enough or reliable WE Om Re TIPS ONT. DoclId: 32290110 Page 6 Seen aap ae Samaaatniegmmanceannnt : .
| . . . . JFK Act 6 (4) NO 92-390/lam enough for bookmakers to pay off bets and could: only be used by some to satisfy their curiousity as to what horses may have won races at some of the Eastern tracks. said that on some afternoons the source would only be able to provide the names of one or two winning horses at only one track and on other afternoons the source might have the names of considerably more winners but on no occasion has this source ever had enough information to enable bookmakers to use the information in connection with their business, So a ee On September 21, 1962. advised that he had determined that the employee at the Times Picayune Newspaper _is a person named "TONY" and that TONY is a relative of a “person naned "JUNIOR" who he understands is a partner of NICK NUCCIO, a bookmaker in Jefferson Parish, _ Louisiana, Investigation is continuing to determine the identity of the Times Picayune employee and the identities of the individuals utilizing the information supplied by this * employee. ep Tae With regard to the other source of out of state race information available to certain bookmakers and betters, 7 Mr. &€,. CHANDLER JOSEY, Special Agent, Southern Bell Telephone , \ and Telegraph Company, New Orleans, advised on September 18, ° 1962 that he was investigating a matter where an unknown individual was using pay telephones in the New Orleans area to make long distance calls to Chicago telephone Number WE- 9-1900. The individual making these calls to this number is retrieving the change he uses in making these calls thereby defrauding the telephone company of the revenue of these calls. JOSEY advised that he had determined that this Chicago telephone number dispenses horse race information approximately | 30 minutes after races have been run. He said that this information is apparently put on a tape recording so that | _when any person calls the number they can receive the infor- mation along with a short commercial announcement advertising a publication known as "The Green Sheet". Mr. JOSEY stated sa TANWAQEUR oa os — a a, ae 45760 DoclId:32290110 Page 9
eee SE a FS a pte eg Ee) a gree | HW 45760 NO 92-390/lam . JFK Act 6 (4) that the identity of winning horses at various racetracks are given along with the paramutual prices on the winning horses. He said that this telephone number does not ~ dispense the identities of second and third place horses or the paramutual prices on these horses, - . In this connection, PCI & , advised on September 21, 1962 that he was aware of the Chicago telephone number and he had ¢alléd this number for his own personal use to find out whether_a particular horse he may have bet on had actually won. [ — ~|said calling parties cannot determine the identities of second and third place horses through this number nor can they obtain the mutual prices for second and third place horses. He said the information which could be obtained by calling this number was not complete enoughtfor any bookmaker to utilize the ; information obtained in connection with his wagering business as a bookmaker must have complete results,. which would include the three winning horses of each race at each major race- ‘track in the country. Investigation. is continuing to determine additional information concerning this telephone number and the use of this number by betters and bookmakers in the New Orleans area, DoclId: 322790110 Page 10
t “ fSFK Act 6 (4) > NO 92-390 : bal . 1 a With regard to these football parley cards, EDGAR BABCOCK, operator of the Dixie Kitchen. ‘Lounge, 711 Metairie Road, Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of the City of New orleans, located in Jefferson Parish, advised he is currently operating a horse race book at the Dixie Kitchen Lounge. BABCOCK stated he did not handle football parley cards during the past football season because he had bad luck financially with a football parley card of his own which he tried to pronote . about two years ago. BABCOCK said his own parley card was called the Buzzing Bee card and he almost went broke when he had a large number of winning piayers for two successive weekends, based on poor "line" information he was receiving from Manuel's Réstaurant on Jefferson ‘Highway in Jefferson Parish. =. f . per[ tno elaine he is one of the best han cappers OF the football games in the country and who claims to have worked for LEO SCHAFFER in Canada, Chicago, and Terre Haute, Indiana, has advised that anyone successfully operating football parley cards would have to. receive good handicapping information, [_|statea that he knows of no one in Louisiana who is good enough to handicap college and professional football games and that the "line" used by successful football parley card operators would have to come from somewhere out of Louisiana, as he, refuses to give a Le afete to any of the gamblers a n the New Orleans area, who is now an insurance salesman, advised he stil ndicaps college and profes~ sional football games merely as an avocation but he does sell this information to Maison Blanche Department Store in New Orleans who publishes his selections under the caption, "Mr. VIP" in Maison Blanche ads on the sports pages of New Orleans newspapers each Friday during the football season, er No we —— _ WAHs- SQ WE i i | HW 45760 Docld:32290110 Page 11