Evening star., 1950-12-21
Senate Crime Probers
Touch Off FuII-ScaIe
Chicago Investigation
BY the Associated Press

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hearings in Chicago have touched
off full scale" investigation on
the city's multimillion dollar policy
gambling racket.
The probe. started after wit
nesses told of the far-fiung policy
operations, already has landed in
jail five of the alleged top gam
bling figures. All testified during
the committees three days of pub
lie hearings which closed last
night.
A sixth witness. Ralph O'Ftara,
a former official of racing news
service, was under Federal indict-
ment for refusing to answer peril
nent questions. Federal marshals
hunted him after the grand jury
bills. containing II counts, were
returned.
Although many witnesses sum-
moned were not called, Senator
Kefauver. Democrat. of Tennessee,
committee chairman. said testi-
mony demonstrated that "inter-
state crime to great degree CEN
ters in Chicago
Among witnesses summoned but
not called during the public hear
ings. which followed an earlier
closed session here by the commit
tee, were several former members
Of the old Capone gang.
Senator Kefauver said search
will be continued for them as well
as for other missing big-name
gangsters. They have been miss
ing from their usual haunts for
several months in an attempt to
escape being served with COM
mittee summons.
To Meet i'm Florida.
The committees next hearing
will open December % in Tampa,
Fla. Senator Kefauver said he
hopes the committee will hold
hearings in 8 or 10 other cities
in the next two months in it's in
vestigation of Nationwide crime
tieups.
Senator Kefauver said that
some of the evidence produced
at the Chicago hearings should be
sufficient for local authorities to
begin Investigations of their own. y
States Attorney John S. Boyle
and Police Commissioner Timothy
O'Connor, who sat in on the hear
ingS, said they had started the
full scale" probe of the policy
operations as disclosed by wit
nesSes.
This is the first break we've
habits our first chance at the
higher-ups," Mr.. Boyle said.
Testimony disclosed that the
several policy wheels raked in
some $50 million a year in bets
ranging from nickel up.
Two of the witnesses held in
Jail are the policy kings of the
South Side Negro district. They
are Edward P. Jones. SO. and
Theodore Roe, who are in partner
ship with three others in one of
the city's biggest policy opera
tions.
Refused to Testify.
Police also seized two policy
wheel operators, Patrick Manno
and Pete c. fremont, after they
refused to testify before the COM
mittee. Like O'Hara, they con-
tended their answers might tend
to incriminate them.
Later, police took into custody
Ralph (Bottles) Capone. a brother
Of the late notorious Scarface AL.
Ralph now operates a resort in
Wisconsin. He also had refused
to answer all !. the committees
questions.
Capone's brother John, also ap-
peared as a witness yesterday as
did Thomas j. Cawley. operator
of gambling houses in nearby La
Sale and Streator, H.: William
Johnston, president of Sports
mans Park race track; Hugo
Bennett, former auditor at the
track, and John Patton, the one
time "boy mayor" of suburban
Burnham, which was headquar-
ters for the old Capone mob.