Originator: FBI
From: JN
To: HQ
Document date: 04/07/1967
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:.

• 4/30/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90113-10048

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 166-3249-57

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

54578 Date: 12-14-2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

JN

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE: 04/07/1967

PAGES:

8

SUBJECTS :

JACK WASSERMAN

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/30/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

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FD-36 (Rev.

Transmit the following in

Via

AIRTEL

FBI

Date:

4/7/67

(Type in plaintext or code)

(Priority)

$716

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (162

287

FROM:

SAC, JACKSON (166-71) (P)

HARRY BENNETT, ET AL;

ITAR-GAMBLING;

CONSPIRACY

gott

(00: JACKSON)

Rexep SA WILLIAM F. DUKES, 3/9/67, at Jackson.

Enclosed herewith are four copies of an FD-302

reflecting an interview with Mrs. DELORES SAVOIE, Biloxi,

Miss., on 4/4/67• DELORES SAVOIE is a PCI of the Jackson

Division who has expressed a complete willingness to testify

fully to her information in this case, together with the fact

that she intends to leave the Mississippi Gulf Coast area and

"get out of the rackets" upon completion of this case.

The information furnished by SAVOIE is extremely

pertinent to this case, and it substantially corroborates

testimony of other witnesses, establishing this conspiracy

and "nailing down" the participation of subject RAYMOND

concerning whom other evidence

was relatively weak.

Neff adviser

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JN 166-71

It is requested that the Bureau disseminate this

FD-302 to Departmental Attorney OWEN A. NEFF, informing

ME. NEFF of the infosant status of SAVOIE and of the fact

that her identity should be kept strictly confidential

pending her appearance at the trial as a witness.

In this

connection USDI Harold COX has allowed subjects only 30 days

in which to file motions, and indications are this matter my

be set for trial in the near future.

VACB, similar dissemination will be made by the

Jackson DivisiOn tO USA ROBERT EL HAUBERG, Jackson, MISSO»

on April 14, 1967.

SUBJECTS JAMES AND ORRELS ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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ERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WESFRANKY

Date.

AVOIE

43/7/67

LOYA

M. 5.5

DELORES

SAVOIE,.

Apartment. Gult Shores Apartments,

advised

she has known

JACK KRESS,

manufacturer of gambling

equipment fron Tulsa,

Oklahona s

first became

acquainted

approximately 20 years.

with JACK

ASSERMAN WashingtOn DoGg

attorney, several years

ago when

WASSERMAN represented her

husband FRANK In

criminal matter at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She

advised that

she went to

work fOr HARRY BENNETT as

shill at the dice

table in BENNETT's

Red Carpet Club at Biloxt,

Mississippi,

and was

employed

in

December, 1964, and there-

after until the Red Carpet Club was padlocked about June, 1965.

She usually came

to work at 7:00 p.n. nightly and worked

ald

might, getting off work at about 3:00 am the following morning.-

During this period JIMMY JAMEs worked for a time at the dice

table in the

Red Carpet Club, and BUDDY ROLlING was the pit boss

at the dice table, which was

located in a large back room.

DEWEY D'ANGELO was aldo employed by HARrY BENNETT during this

period at the

Red Carpet Club, and D'ANGELD usually worked in

the front root with the blackjack table and

was generally the

overseer of the girls working as Bodrinkera

MES. SAVOIE advised that beginning in about

January,

1965, HARRY BENNETT began complaining about the fact that he

was losing money

at the dice

table in the Red Carpet Club and

that the customers vere winning too often.

During this time

RICHARD YARBROUGH and HARVEY HUTCHINS, Culport, Mississippi,

attomeys,

were frequently in the Red

Carpet Club, as was

BENNETT'S SON ROBERT BENNETT.

About this same period she was

aware that HARRy BEN IT hired HARVEY HUTCHINS to

work out some

kind of check-cashing schene wherein HUTCHINS cashed checks

taken by BENNeTt at the gambling tables at the Red Carpet Club,

and on one occasion HUTCHINS told Mrs SAVOEthat he was in the

check cashing business

she stated that almost invariably it

a customer lost money

at the gambling

tables and

wanted to pay

4/4/68

_at_

Biloki,

_ FIlo#_

Jackson 166-71

SA WILLIAM F. DUKES and

by --

SA WILLIAM DEAN JANSEN/WED:CaS

-Date dictated..

4/4/67

This document contalns neither recommendations nor conclusions of ihe

Fai. It is the property of the FBland is looned to your agency;

Hand ils contents are not to be distributed ouside your agany. ENCLÖSURE

162

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his losses by check, he was referred to the office and Mr. HARRY

BENNETT

MrS. SAVOIE

had

further specifies

concerning this

check cashing operation.

MrS. SAVOIE advised that

during the period about

January

through March, 1965. JAKe

JACKSON,

a resident of Florida.

and GLEN

OWENS, an Atlanta, Georgia, resident, both friends of

JIMMY JAMES, hung around

Red Carpet Club, as did STANLEY

WOODALL. JACKSON was a heavy drinker and had nothing to do with

operation of the club, apparently hanging around because of his

association with JIMMY JAMES.

The same was generally true of

GLENN OWENS.

STANLEY WOODALL waS employed by HArRy BEnveTrat

the Red Carpet Club, but WoODALl was drinking usually and did

little work.

In about March, 1965, exact date not recalled, BUDDY

ROLLING told

MES.' SAVOIE

that he was going to Jefferson Parish,

Louisiana,

and that he would be back in a day or so with some

"hot stuff"

and told her to

pray that he did not get caught.

She assumed ROLLING meant that he was going to bring back some

slot machines from Louisiana, and

she asked him if this was so.

ROLLING told her it was something heavier than slot machines.

ROLLING and

JAMES

thereafter

disappeared from around the Red

Carpet Club for & day or so.

told her on one

While they were gone,

, HARRY BENNETT

morning when

she got off duty to come in early

that day.:

He did not explain why, but she

came to work at the

Carpet Club

about 5:00 p

that afternoon.

Upon

arrival

innediately noticed that the back room where the dice table

was located was tom up, and there was

a hole in the floor where

the dice table usually sat.

This

was

a

there was

concrete dust all over

the

concrete floor,

and

room and fixtures, which

she

began

to tidy up.

The

room

and

present were

the

this

occasion

was

turoil of activity,

following individuals:

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JACK KRESS,

who was

giving orders

and

generally supervising activity in the

rOOM

BILL (last name unkown),

a, man

she knew

from years past to be

an

engineer

of

kind employed by JACK KRESS in KRESS'

at Tulsa, Oklahoma.

This individual

slightly

resembles KRESS in build and

appearance;

sone

shop

JIMMY JAMES»

who was dressed in work

coveralls and was

engaged in

some kind of

work around

the hole in the

concrete floor;

HARRY BENNETT, who was likewise

dressed in

coveralls;

DEWEY D'ANGELO

BUDDY ROLLING

GLENN OWENS

ERIC ROSINNETIES

an elderly man employed by

HARRY BENNETT AS

sort of caretaker;

MAURICE ARNOL, an electrician and handyman

employed by HARRy BENNeTT who was

busily

ho king

up some kind of wires

in the room.

Mrs. SAVOIE could not specifically recall if STANLEY

WOODALI was in the room at this time, but WOODAlL was

in and

out of the

club during

this period as

he was employed

there.

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She was not aware of any part WOODALL may have played in

obtaining and using the device at the dice table.

Mrs. SAVOIE stated that to the best of her recollection,

JIMMY JAMES' white Cadillac was parked in back of the Red Carpet

Club hooked up to some kind of U Haul trailer.

Mrs. SAVOIE stated she did not stay in the back room and

observe the work there as HARRY BENNETT closed the connecting

doors between this room and the front room, where Mrs. SAVOIE

worked dusting off concrete dust from the fixtures. At about

7:00 p.m., the usual time of opening

for the nightly business,

BENNETT opened the doors; and Mrs.. SAVOIE observed that the

red carpet had been pulled back over the concrete

floor, and the

dice table was in its usual place.

puring the course of the

evening, while working in the vicinity of the dice table, she

could feel small pieces of concrete under the carpet; and she

told BENNETT about this.

On succeeding

days thereafter, she observed that BUDdY

ROLLING worked the dice table, in the course of which he had in

his hand and pocket a small device which appeared similar

to a

small transistor

radio.

He always had this device in his pocket

while customers were at the table. Mrs. SAVOIE stated that

although she was

never specifically told, from her observations

she knew that there was

"juice joint" in operation underneath

the dice table by remote control. She stated she is

acquainted

with the manner in which these devices operate,

as one was in

the Cay Paree Lounge at Biloxi, Mississippi, when she worked

there.

Mrs. SAVOIE advised that this operation continued

with BUDDY ROLLING operating the device until the Red Carpet

Club was padlocked in June or Julys 1965. She was present when

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when the "juice joint" was dug out of the floor at the Red

Carpet Club and moved across the street to DEWEY D'ANGELO'S

place Deano's lounge. She stated that this move was accomplished

by JIMMY JAMES, DEWEY D'ANGELO; JACK KRESS, BUDDY ROLLING,

MAURICE ARNOLD, HARRY BENNETT ERIC ROSINNETTE, and PAUL BROWN;

and it was done in one night.

MES. SAVOIE waS

never thereafter

employed at Deano's Lounge and stated she thus was not aware of

the nature of the operation at Deand's Lounge, although she

assumed that BUDDY ROLLING continued to use the "juice joint"

until it reportedly broke down.

Mrs. SAVOIE advised that she personally is aware that

JIMMY JAMES Is an Oldotime acquaintance of JACK KRESS, and from

seeing them together at the Red Carpet Club, she is certain

that JAMES is responsible for obtaining the

"juice joint" from

KRESS and bringing it to Mississippi.

She

stated that she never

actually saw the component parts of this "juice joint" until it

was dug out of the floor for transfer from the Red Carpet Club

to Deano's Lounge.

she could not say positively how it came

to Mississippi, but she belleves JAMES brought it. She recalled

that on one occasion after the "juice joint" was dug up and

that if any law ever asked her about the

should say that JACK JACKSON brought it to Mississippi. JAMES

explained that JACK JACKSON was dead, having been killed in an

automobile accident in Florida.

Mrs. SAVOIE

advised

she is

acquainted with IVAN

ORRELS, known to her also as

"Lanky" Orrels, whom

she knows as

an associate of JIMMY JAMES.

She stated she knew of no con-

nection OrrELs might have with the "juice joint" at the red

Carpet Club and Deano's Lounge, but she recalled having seen

ORRELS from time to time at the Red Carpet Club, as well as at

the Gay Paree Lounge at Bilori,

Mississippi

She specifically

could not recall having seen ORRELS at the Red Carpet Club in

March, 1965, at the time the "juice joint" was

being installed

there.

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Mes. SAVOIE advised that about a month before the

"juice joint" was installed in the red Carpet Club, this being

about the latter part of January or early February, 1965, she

was present at the Red Carpet Club when JIMMY JAMES came

with

JACK KRESS and KRESS"

engineer BILL. She observed JAMES

introduce KRESS and BILL tO HARRY BENNETT and definitely got

the impression that HARRY BENNETT had not met KRESS prior to

this time.

Mes. SAVOIE stated

that

after the "juice joint" was

installed and was in use at

the Red Carpet Club, on one occasion

HARRY BENNETT told her that the

juice joint" cost him a hell of

a lot of money® i

¿Also, shortly alter the "juice joint"

was

installed,

she was at Cus Stevens Restaurant, Biloxl,

Mississippi,

having coffee with JIMMY JAMES and CLENN OWENS. JAMES expressed

concern that BUDDY ROLLING las not qualified to run the "juice

joint," and he feared that

ROTtING would "mess things up.

Mrs. SAVOIE stated that she would have no hesitation

whatever to testifying completely and truthfully to all infor

mation she has concerning this matter, although she would prefer

that her name not be made know outside the Federal Bureau of

Investigation or U.S. Department of Justice pending her

testimony at the trial.

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