Evening star., 1950-10-03
Crime Probers Call
Virginia Hill and Is
.1oChicago Hearing
BY the Associated Press


CHICAGO, Oct. 3.-The Senate
Committee Investigating Crime
has summoned 25 witnesses to it's
Chlcago hearings which start
Thursday.
Committee investigators refused
to identify them but it was learned
a downstate gambler has been
subpoenaed.
He is Tom Cawley, SIS, operator
OF a plush gaming house in down.
town La Sale. about 100 miles
southwest of Chicago.
Virginia Hill. to Testify.
Another witness subpoenaed was
Mrs. Virginia Hill Hauser, friend
of the late Bugsy SiegeI, slain Los
Angeles mobster.
In Bar Harbor, Me-, Chief of
Police Howard Mcfarland said
that Mrs. Hauser has received the
subpoena and is ready to go to
Chicago as soon as possible" even
though she is expecting child.
Federal officials said Mrs. Hauser
was served the subpoena Septem-
Der 3 at her fashionable Bar Har-
Dor home where she is living in
seclusion. Efforts to reach her for
comment were unsuccessful. Serv-
ants said she is ill.
Killed in Beverly Hills Home.
Mrs. Hauser is the wife of Her.
mann Hans" Hauser. ski in.
structor. 1t was in her Swank
Beverly Hills home that Siege.
was shot to death in 1947. She
was in Paris at the time and was
treated at a French hospital for
what doctors said was an over
dose o. sleeping pills.
Committee Chairman Kefauver
said in Washington that it might
be some time before Mrs. Hauser
is questioned. He added that she
might be questioned in New York.
He refused to say exactly what the
committee wants to ask her.
The committee comes to Chi
cago 10 days after the gang-style
killings of two men who offered to
supply information on Chicago
underworld activities.
The Senate group is expected to
dig into the doings and influence
of Chicago racket bosses linked
with the old Capone mob.
wide Open" Spot.
Cawley operates a place known
as Kelly -Cawley's, a night club and
restaurant which has been one of
the biggest ''wide-open" gambling
places downstate. 1t has operated
for years, despite some local po-
lice raids.
George S. Robinson, associate
committee counsel, refused to say
what information the committee
expects to get from Cawley, but
he declared he is almost certain
there is "tie-in" between La Sale
County gambling and Chicago
mobsterS.
The Kefauver committee will be
aided by George H. White. its top
investigator, who came to Chicago
from Kansas City.
Two days of closed sessions are
expected to go into the mysterious
ambush Slayir1gs of William j.
Drury and Marvin BaS.
Both were shot down four hours
apart a week ago. Mr.. Drury was
"a one-time police lieutenant who
became a private detective. Bas
was lawyer.
Safety Deposit Boxes Probed.
Police dug into Mr.. Bas' safety
deposit box yesterday but failed
to get a clue to his assassins.
Cash totalling $12,640, stocks
valued at $9,250, and $4,000
double indemnity insurance policy
were found in the box.
The box also contained a $4,000
accident insurance policy and
several purchase receipts. Both
insurance policies named Mrs.
Florence Bas, the widow, as bene-
ficiary.
The work of the committee had
political repercussions in Wash
ington today.
Senator Brewster, Republican,
of Maine, said at a press confer
ence yesterday that the commit
tees "disillusioning" disclosures
are helping the Republicans in
their fight to regain control of
Congress.
Senator Kefauver retorted that
the committee is letting the facts
it turns up speak for themselves
without regard to political conse-
quences.