Originator: FBI
From: SU
To: HQ
Document date: 07/14/1955
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/23/201

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90088-10040

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

CR 62-75147-44-593

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

11992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

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07/14/1955

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BENJAMIN BINION

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

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CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW:

07/14/1998

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NEX

"HAVE ROOM FOR TWO AT DESERT INN UNDER NAME OF J.-

BAKER.

HAVE ROOMS FOR FOUR CHARLIE B.

HAVEN'T

BEEN ABLE TO PHONE THROUGH.

SEND WIRE WHEN YOU

WILI ARRIVE TO SAM MANNARINO, ROOM 115, DESERT

INN.

BRING LOUIS IMPORTANT.

Fla.

S/ JACK DRAGNA"

Informant stated that MANNARINO was reportedly

well known at Miami, Florida.

JOE XMASSI

Find much. red.

340-C advised that JOE MASSI of Detroit and

Miami was

Las Vegas during the week of May 2, 1955, and was

there for the purpose of being present for the opening

operation of the new Riviera Hotel, It has been reported that

Newh

LEFTY CLARK, true name WILLIAM GUSTO/BISCHOFF, was reportedly

in Las Vegas to take over the casino management of the Riviera

Flanto protect JOE MASSI's interest.

Undersheriff LLOYD BELL Of

Ithe Clark County Sheriff's Office refused to issue a permit

for CLARK to be employed in Clark County and there was a rumor

that an attempt was made to buy the Sheriff's Office off,

which was unsuccessful, and LEFTY CLARK announced he was

ing Las Vegas and returning to Miami, Florida.

BENNY/BINION, wa.

EBI Number 205216.

Ks. Nev. IckaS

BINION is presently serving time in the United States

received a five-year sentence in December, 1953.

Penitentlary at leavenworth for incone tax custodi he

NU' "DOBY DOC"CAUDILI, a part owner of the Horseshoe Club and.

close associate of

BINION, advised Agents that BINION was up

/ for parole in August, 1955, and there was a good possibility

he would be released from the penitentiary on parole. CAUDILL

advised SU 283-C that money

had been placed in the right spots

in Texas so BINION would not have to return to Texas on the

five-year sentence which he received in State Court, and that

information had been received from a reliable source that

BINION would be allowed to receive federal probation and would

not have to do his time in Texas.

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SU, 283-C advised that he had received infor-

"Las Vegas Sun"

GREENSPUN advised informant that letters had been received from

ERNIE, CRAGIN,

Las Vegas; BELDON/KATLEMAN,

District Judge LEONICNAMEE, and Mayor C.

A letter was also obtained from ROBERTVKALTENBORN, who.

has large real estate holdings in Las Vegas and was formerly

convicted of income tax evasion, but KALTENBORN's letter would

not be used because of his previous convictions.

PETER, BRADY, WAS!

Pete, Brady, Pete Gench:

PETE BRADY, according to LLOYD BELL, is a steer

man for stolen merchandise and jewelry to be fenced in the

Las Vegas area. He is also known to have associated with GENE

WARNER, previously mentioned, in fencing furs taken in a

California robbery, all of which were returned to California

authorities when it was learned that BRADY and GENE WARNER had

disposed of these furs to dealers, pit bosses and part owners

of resort hotels in Las Vegas.

BRADY for a while was the Casino Manager of the

Showboat Hotel for the "Cleveland Mob"

• This casino was

apparently not paying those interested in this operation

sufficiently and the casino was released to BILDyMOORE, who is

DOROTHY SCHWEITZER, PCI, has previously advised

that BRADY is known to have made

numerous reservations for

girls coming in from Los Angeles and SCHWEITZER was of the

opinion these were call girls.

WILBUR#CLARK

WILBUR CLARK, according to SU 283-C, -has a very

small interest in the Desert Inn and on April 15, 1955, CLARK

informed SU 283-C that he had been

having trouble with his

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partners in the desert Inn and that they insisted upon seeing

his tax return before he submitted it so that their reported

income

from the hotel would coincide.

CLARK advised informant

that other part owners of the Desert Inn who had operated the

Showboat wanted to write their losses from the Showboat off

their earnings at the Desert Inn.

EDWARD

EIPPINGER, was.

CLIPPINGER, former owner and operator, of Roxie's

Four Mile, house of prostitution, was convicted in July, 1954,

for conspiracy to violate the White Slave Traffic Act.

convicted was ROXIE CLIPPINGER.

Both received sentences of

three years in federal institutions.

DICK- KELLOGG, Manager of

orie's Four Mile, received a sentence of five years and was.

placed on probation.

VeV: Kes.CA

LOUIS WEINERy

Attorney for CLIPPINGERs and

KELLOGG, reported that ROXIE CLIPPINGER has been released from

Neil.

the United States Penitentiary at Alderson, West Virginia, and fin

that EDDIE/GLIPPINGER is due to be released in the very near

future from McNeil Island.

WEINER stated that the provisions

of their parole were extremely strict and he was doubtful that

they would be able to leave the San Bernardino, California,

area, which is their home, until the expiration of their

sentences.

DICK KELLOGG is reported by U. S. Probation

Officer HUBERT BOYD at Las Vigas to be under the supervision

of the Probation Officer of the Southern District of California..

where he presently is residing.

MOE B.

*DALITZ

FBI Number 4124252

Neu.

DALITZ,

according to SU 283-C, is the principal

owner of Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, Las Vegas, and is the owner

of the Colonial House, which he purchased from WILBUR CLARK.

eN:

DOROTHY SCHWEITZER, PCI, advisea

tha

JOSEPH

"DOC" STACHER, ABNER "LONGIE" ZWILIMAN and GEORGE/CORDIN, a li1: ive

Cleveland gambler, have been observed at meetings with MOE

DALITZ at DALITZ'S residence in Las Vegas.Ned,

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The previously reported ownership of the

Flamingo Hotel has not changed, accordingeto Mrs. ANN MOORE,

Civil Division, Glack County Sheriff's Office.

However, in

recent months EDDIEXLEVENSON, formerly a part

owner of the

Sands Hotel and who is the head of the promotion of the

Fremont Hotel located at 2nd and Fremont in downtown Las

Vegas and who was Casino Manager of the Flamingo under the

HULL ownership, left the Flamingo and went to the new Royal.

Nevada.

SU 283-C advised on March 17, 1955, that CARL

LERS, a pit boss

AL PARVIN,

difficulty in agreeing on methods of operation of the casino.

SU 283-C stated his

source reported that LEVENSON was selling

out his interest in the Flamingo Hotel but had agreed to stay

at the Flamingo until June, 1955, or until he could be re-

placed.

On March 24, 1955, informant stated that his

same source at the Flamingo had told him the Chicago Syndicate

was attempting to take over a controlling interest in the

Flamingo and that they hoped to have this control by June 1,

1955. Informant stated CHESTERSIMS, a pit boss at the..

Flamingo, will represent the Chicago syndicate's money in this

hotel.

Nei:

HORSESHOE CLUB

The Horseshoe Club is presently owned by JOE W.

"DOBY

BROWN, DONE GAUDILI.

Is reported to own 972%, and 22% is owned by ROBERT.

This club has been completely rebuilt

since it was obtained by JOE W. BROWN from BENNY BINION.

BINION is presently in the United States Penitentiary at

Leavenworth, having been convicted for income tax evasion and

is due to appear before the Parole Board in August, 1955.

The Horseshoe Club has $1,000,000.00 on display, which display is

hung from a large golden horseshoe, the center area being

enclosed in glass.

PCI JOHN EUBANKS advised on April 4, 1955, there

had been some bitter disagreements among the employees at the

Horseshoe Club and Casino Manager

BARR. BARR, according

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to informant

"manhandling"

was insisting

on security guards at the clus

and "muscling" undesirable persons who came

into the Horseshoe Club.

Informant stated HIRAM POWELI, had

refused to enforce these rough tactics which were desired by

BARR and probably would resign.

It is noted HIRAM LONELL did

resign on approximately April 11, I955, and 1s presently

employed as a Deputy sheriff in clark county.

PIONEER CLUB

New

The Pioneer Club is located at First and Fremont,

Las Vegas, and, according to Sergeant WAYNE MCDORMAN, the

ownership has not changed.

However, it is contemplated there

will be some changes, as some of the principal owners are

desirous of selling their interests and obtaining interests in

some of the new resort hotels.

SU 340-C advised on May 16, 1955, that BELDON

KATLEMAN, present owner of the El Rancho Vegas

Hotel on the

Las Vegas

"Strip"

, is interested in purchasing the Pioneer

club.

THUNDERBIRD HOTEL

The ownership of the Thunderbird Hotel has not

changed since the last report, according to ANN MOORE, Civil

Division of the Clark County Sheriff's Office.

There

considerable publicity relative.

to undisclosed interests in

the Thunderbird Hotel

by GEORET SADLOW, MEYER and JAKE LANSKY,

and principal owner M. B.JHICKS and former Lieutenant Governor

CLIFF JONES, also a number

of employees, had been before the

Nevada State Tax Commission to testify as to the ownership of

this hotel.

The "Nevada State Journal" newspaper of Reno,

Nevada, carried an article on June 23, 1955, which stated

that

District Judge MARWYN H. BROWN of Winnemucca, Nevada, was

expected to rule at 2:00 PM on the above date as to whether the

gambiing licensees of

the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas will

be granted a temporary injunction preventing the State Tax

Commission from proceeding with a revocation action.

The Thunderbird licensees were ordered by the

State Tax Commission on April 1, 1955, to see to it that MARION link

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