Evening star., 1936-03-19
UNDERSTANDING
. ON EQUIPMENT IN
RAIDS IS ALLEGED
F. c. c. Official Tells Hoover
Aide Subscribers to Data
Mostly "GambIers."
PAYMENT OF $25 FEE
TO ATTORNEY CLAIMED
Jamestown City Official Given
Money for Legal Services
Commission Charges.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Communications Commission
today called on the Justice Depart
ment to investigate activities OF the
American Telephone g. Telegraph
Co. in providing wirC facilities for the
transmission of racing news.
Commissioner Paul A. Walker, d.
recting a S750,000 F. C. C. investiga-
ton into the mammoth utility, said he
had communicated with an assistant
to J. Edgar Hoover, head OF the Bu-
reau of Investigation.
Walker said he called attention to
testimony at an F. c. c. hearing yes
terday regarding the use of A. T.
& T. wires for sending sporting news.
Samuel Becker, special counsel for
the commission, charged that most OF
the subscribers to racing news services
were gamblers" or pool room oper-
ators."
He introduced correspondence be-
tween A. T. g. T. officials which, he
said, showed the company had in
one case reached an understanding
with Massachusetts, State police for
the recovery of teletypewriter equip
ment seized in raids on gambling
houses.
Fee for Legal Services"
Other correspondence indicated a
company representative had paid
S25 fee for legal services" to James
Hughes, jamestown, N. Y, city at
torney. after teletype machine had
been returned to the company after
a gambling raid.
Walker said this testimony "was
such that I thought it ought to be
called to the attention of the De-
parment of Justice"
He said he had suggested that the
Justice Department interest itself in
the case.
action the Justice Department might
take after investigating and did not
feel it proper for him to suggest any.
Informed of Walkers action by
newsmen, Walter S. Clifford, president
of the A. T. & T, said: I'VE will be
delighted to cooperate fully with
Mr.. Hoover"
LAS far as I know" Clifford added,
there has been nothing illegal about
our activities
I'VE will be glad to give Mr.. Hoover
all the information we have given the
commission and anything else he
might want"
Clifford said the record of the COM
panys activities in providing wire
facilities for sporting news services
was "an open book"
Summoned to the witness stand to-
day for questioning on this subject
was Frank Quigley, an A. T. g. T.
attorney.
Becker said he wanted to question
Quigley regarding his purported con-
ferences with representatives of a
racing news service which leased A.
T. & T. wires and teletypewriter
equipment.
Quigley, he said, would be asked
whether he requested these representa-
tives to do nothing which would make
it difficult" for A. T g. T. to serve
them.
Correspondence introduced by Becker
showed a teletypewriter machine was
seized by police in an establishment
there in April, 1885.
w. j. Carruthers, right of way agent
for the telephone company, and S. A.
Walker, superintendent of the James
town Telephone Co., the correspond
ence said, appeared before the city
judge, who appeared not to be favor
able to the telephone company"
They later called Oh Hughes, who
was described in letter as inclined
to take our view"
Case Was Dropped.
The case ended, Becker said, with
Andrew Arkelpaine, one Of the opera
tors of the establishment, forfeiting
bail. Becker declared Hughes then
dropped the case, received a s25 fee
from Carruthers, and returned the
teletype equipment to the telephone
company.
Carruthers admitted the transaction
from the witness stand. He testified
also he had given "a small box of
cigars" to Walker to deliver to men,
bers of the Jamestown police force.
Later, Carruthers wrote to an A. T.
g. T. attorney in New York that
Arkelpaine had opened "a new busi-
ness place" under the name of Andy
Paine"
Tie letter, which Carruthers con-
ceded he had written, said "the build
ing in which operations will be con-
Quoted sits back in grove or woods
distant from the road about 500 feet
and was designed as a chicken house"
1t added that deputy sheriff lived
in a house two doors from Walkers
home. THE deputy is in the know"
it continued Should trouble develop
later Walker will be tipped"