Evening star., 1950-10-13
Crime Probers Study
Policy Racket Taking
Children S Pennies
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.-The
Senate Crime Investigating Com.
mittee moved from New York te
Philadelphia today with plans tt
throw its spotlight on a $100 mil
mion-a-year policy racket preying
on school children.
Chairman Kefauver said the
crime investigators have reason tc
believe the major gambling activ-
ity in the Philadelphia area is the
policy or numbers racket.
Alfred M. Klein, assistant
counsel for the committee, esti-
mated the gross annual take OF
the numbers game here at 500
million, including "the pennies OF
countless school children"
Among those to be heard during
the committees closed-door ses-
sions in Philadelphia will be:
Richard Samuel, son of Phila-
delphia's Mayor Bernard Samuel
Judge Joseph Sloane of Com
mon Pleas Court.
Director of Public Safety
Samuel H. Rosenberg.
Police Superintendent Howard
P. Sutton and other members of
the Police Department.
Frank (Blinky) Palermo, man
ager of Lightweight Boxing
Champion Ike Williams.
Mr.. Rosenberg and Judge
Sloane agreed to appear volun-
tarily while Richard Samuel, the
police officials and Palermo were
subpoenaed. Mr.. Samuel, who is a
personal property assessor in the
Board of Revision of Taxes, was
told to bring his financial rec
ords.
Judge Sloane has been active in
efforts to uncover the heads of
Philadelphia's gambling kingdom.
During a radio appearance last
night Senator Kefauver said he
has learned United States sources
are providing Charles Oucky)
Luciano, deported vice overload
now in Italy, with '1ots of cur
rency."
Says Money Is Mailed.
The committee has evidence,
Senator Kefauver said, that large
amounts of money are being
mailed to Luciano and that he
''still has his finger in the United
States crime picture"
Senator Kefauver and the two
other members of his commit
tee came to Philadelphia yester-
day after winding up two days
of closed hearings at New York.
Working with him are Senator'S
O'Conor, Democrat. of Maryland
and Wiley, Republican, of Wis
consin.
At New York, Senator Kefauver
said the committee may call for
mer Mayor William O'Dwyer and
Harry Gross, Brooklyn bookie
boss.
He said he was looking into"
a summons for Mr.. O'Dwyer after
Senator Tobey, Republican, of
New Hampshire, and a member
of the committee. declared that
he wanted to see the former New
York Mayor before the committee
as well as Gross. #
Changes His Mind. r
Later in Philadelphia, Senator
Kefauver said, however, the crime
investigators thus far have un-
covered no reason to subpoena
Mr.. O'Dwyer, who was sworn in
Wednesday as Ambassador to
Mexico.
IF we find a reason, we GER
tainly will call him." Senator
Kefauver added.
Meanwhile, a Brooklyn grand
jury said it would summon Mr..
ODwyer. No date was set.
Gross has admitted paying off
crooked New York police at the
rate of 81 million a year for pro-
lection. He refused to name
names.
Before winding up it's New York
hearings, the Senate committee
threatened to cite for contempt
one of its key witnesses, Meyer
Lansky. Senator Kefauver said
Lansky refused to say whether he
was a business associate Of Gam
bier Joe Adonis, Bookmaker Frank
Erickson and Charles Fischetti,
xeputed crime boss.