Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/01/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

4/28/201

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RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10202-10386

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62-9-33-347

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, NO

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 10/01/1962

PAGES:

88

SUBJECTS :

CIP, STATE OF LA, INVEST, GAMBLING, BOOKMAKING, CM,

JPO, JM, DI PIAZZO, SALVATORE, ASSOC, PROSTITUTION

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4; 10(a)2; 11(a)

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INC BRIEF, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1, INDEX PAGES I-VIII

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

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

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A.

GAMBLING

I. BOOKMAKING

Investigation of bookmaking in the New Orleans

Area has revealed that up through September 13, 1961,

bookmakers were receiving results of out-of-state races

through Nola Printing Company, the local race wire service,

which discontinued operations

on that date because of the

existence of new Federal legislation pertaining to inter-

State gamoring activities.

Investigation has disclosed that

since september 15, 1951, bookmakers in the New Orleans Area

have not been able

to obtain out-of-state race results on

the same day that races are run.. They have had to rely on

race results obtained through legitimate news media, and

the New Orleans Times Picayune Newspaper has been their prin-

cipal source of this information, in so far as horse races

are concerned.

Investigation has disclosed that

from September

13, 1961, to November 23, 1961, local bookmakers' business

was seriously curtailed; however, the New Orleans Fair Grounds

Race Track began its 1961 winter meet on November 23, 1961.

This meet continued

until March 10, 1962.

During the period

of the Fair Grounds' meet, local bookmakers' business picked

up considerably and again fell off after March 10, 1962.

NOLA PRINTING COMPANY, 530 IRIS AVENUE, JEPTERSON

PARISH, LOUISIANA

Our investigation of Nola Printing Company

during the past five years has disclosed that it was

the race wire service for this section of the United

Nola operated until September 13, 1961,

when it terminated its race wire service on that

date, which was the day President HENNEdY signed

into

law Federal legislation concerning interstate

gambling activities.

PCI'S RAYMOND L. ROLLING and ALBERT L.

PILSBURY, JR., both of whom are cognizant of gambling

activities in

Jefferson Parish, have advised that

Nola had exclusive territorial

rights to furnish

results of horse races to bookmakers in Louisiana,

Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, East Texas, and

some Eastern States, but not Florida.

ROLLING has

been a bookmaker in Jefferson Parish

for many year's

and subscribed to Nola's service.

PILSBUry has been

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a bookmaker and is a professional gambler, working

in various gambling casinos.

In addition to providing the results

of horse races by telephone communications facilities,

Nola also publishes the Daily Sports Bulletin, which

lists the horses and odds on races being run at

most of the tracks throughout the United states.

With regard to the odds published by the daily Sports

Bulletin, these are the odds established each morn

tug by the

ing by the racing Secretaries at the various race

tracks and are the odds that appear on paramutual

boards at these tracksshortly before the beginning

of each race.:

The racing schedules listed in the

Daily Sports Bulletin also show what horses have

been scratched as of the time the Daily Sports

Bulletin goes to press.

This publication is printed

each weekday, except sunday.

Internal Revenue Service in New Orleans

nas

Service

On January 13, 1958, Internal Reyenue

Agent NAURBON L. PERRY advised that

JFK Law 11(a)

PORETTO is Manager of Nola Printing Com-

pany :

December 17, 1957, PCI ROLLING advised

that Nola is managed by PORETTO; that it is the

general opinion among bookmakers in Jefferson Parish

that Nola is controlled by CARLOS MARCELLO and that

one of MARCELLO! brothers, JOSEPH, was made a partner

of Nola to oversee the operation and protect CARLOS

MARCELLO's interest.

On July 13, 1961; July 20, 1961, and

September 5, 1961, PCI ROLLING, who then operated

a horse race book

in Jefferson

Parish, advised

that Nola was still furnishing horse race informa-

tion to bookmakers.

• On September 20, 1961, Attorney

HILLARY J. GAUDIN,

New Orleans, advised he

is the

Attorney for Nola.

He identified PORETTO as one

of the partners of Nola and stated that Nola is

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in the business of disseminating results of horse

races, but ceased operating as a race wire service

on September 13, 1961.

On February 2, 1962, PORETTO

advised SA REGIS L. KENNEDY that Nola

Printing Com-

pany is not putting out race results for the New

Orleans Fair Grounds Race Track or any other race

track.

He said he would not reactivate Nola as a

race

wire service as long as there is any doubt

about the new Federal legislation pertaining to

interstate gambling.

After Nola ceased its operations, on

September 13, 1961, investigation disclosed that

bookmakers in Jefferson Parish and the New Orleans

Area began to receiveng results of races being run

at the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Track when

that track opened its winter meet on Thanksgiving

Day, November 23, 1961.

On December 7, 1961, PCI

HOWARD DANIEL BAUTSCH, who operates a horse race

book at Manuel's Restaurant, 952 Jefferson Higaway,

advised that he had been receiving race results

from the lair Grounds since November 23, 1961. He

said he did not know who was operating the service

but ABEL JOHN CHAUVIN had contacted him about buyigg

the service. BAUTSCH said the service consisted of

actual broadcast of the races as they were being

run at the Fair Grounds.

It is to be noted that

the 1961 winter meet of

the Fair Grounds operated

from November 23, 1961, to March 10, 1962. This

track has only one meet a year, which begins each

year on Thanksgiving Day.

CHAUVIN's service ran through December 21,

1961. On December 22, 1961, PCI ROLLING advised

that on the previous day CHAUVIN announced over his

wire service that he had received information that

somebody, without his authority, was "bootlegging"

his service to the Mississippi

Gulf Coast in viola-

tion of the new Federal laws pertaining to inter-

state gambling.

ROLLING said CHAUVIN commented

that if this illicit transmission did not discontinue

Immediately his service would shut down. ROLLING

said that on December 22, 1961, when bookmakers

called CHAUVIN service for Pair Grounds results

of that day they were advised that the service had

been discontinued.

CHAUVIN was interviewed on March 14, 1962,

and he advised that he had operated a race wire ser-

vice from November 23, 1961, to December 21, 1961,

discontinuing it because he received information

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that individuals unknown to him and without his

authority were "bootlegging" his service to the

Mississippi Gulf Coast.

CHAUVIN said he operated

this service from 3646 Airline Highway, Jefferson

Parish, utilizing 18 telephones in this place.

(In this connection, investigation of Nola Print

ing Company disclosed

that this was the central

point fron which Nola's race wire service was dissemi-

nated when Nola was in operation. › CHAUVIN said

JOSEPH A. PORETTO and Nola Printing Company had no

connection with his race wire service and that he

was renting the premises at 3646 Airline Highway

frOm JOSEPH PORETTO and JOSEPH MARCELLO, who owned

CHAUVIN claimed that he had only

approximately 17 paying subscribers to his service

and complained that one of his main difficulties

in operating the service was that bookmakers in

Jefferson Parish were stealing it and not paying

for it. He said he determined that some 80 book-

makers were actually receiving the service but only

about 17 were paying him for it.

ANTHONY JOSEPH LUPO was interviewed by

Agents at Nola Printing Company, 530 Iris Avenue,

on June 22, 1962.

LUPO identified himself

as

the publisher of the Dally Sports Bulletin. He

said the Bulletin is still being published and

that is

the only activity taking place at 530 Iris

Avenue.

LUPO said in the old days Nola employed

25 to 30 men but now there were only four or five

men on the payroll and only about 600 copies of

the Dally Sports Bulletin are printed each day.

LUPO said these are sold only in Louisiana and

none

are mailed out of the state, as he does not

desire to become involved li a possible violation

of any of the new Federal legislation pertaining

to interstate gambling activities.

After ABEL JOHN CHAUVIN cut off his

service to local bookmakers on December 22, 1961,

PCI RAYMOND ROLLING said that for a few days

there was no organized service from the Fair Grounds.

On January 5, 1962, ROLLING said that SAM SAIA,

a long-time

bookmaker in the New Orleans area, was

then providing results of Fair Grounds races only

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to bookmakers along Jefferson Highway in Jefferson

Parish.

On February 2, 1962, ROLLING said service

from the Fair Grounds had been very poor since CHAUVIN

ceased operating in December and at that time various

bookmakers had devised their own systems of obtaining

race results from the Fair Grounds on an individual

basis:

He said that, to cut down expenses, they

were sharing the results with each other.

The following is a summary of investigations conducted

by the New Orleans Office since Nola Printing Company went out

of business as a race wire service in September, 1961.

These

investigationsdd o not reveal that there is any

race wire ser

vice available to bookmakers in the New Orleans Metropolitan

area which would enable them to pay off winning bettors on

the same day that out-of-state races are run.

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Nola Printing Company went out of business in September,

1961, none of the bookmakers in the New Orleans area are

receiving out of state race results on the same day that

stato race

races are being run. All three have pointed out that

because of the fact that no race wire service is available

in the New Orleans area,

they are unable to past post book-

makers in this area.

They advised that one of the essential

elements to a successful past posting operation is that the

victim bookmaker must be handling considerable action and be

busily occupied in his profession.

Since there is no race

wire service in the New Orleans area at this time, the

business of the bookmakers has been seriously affected with

the result that they are unable to past post these books.

In this connection, WARE said he has traveled

throughout Louisiana,

both before and after September, 1961

and has found that the same conditions exist in such areas

as Monroe, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, Louisiana.

He explained that without a race wire service in the Louisiana

area,

bookmaking business is "dead" and as long as it remains

"dead" he cannot successfully past post bookmakers.

HOWARD DANIEL BAUTSCH, a PCI who is active as a

bookmaker at 952 Jefferson Highway, which is Manuel's Restaurant

and Bax, advised on May 22, 1962 and July 13, 1962 that there

is no service in the New Orleans area providing the identities

and the mutual prices of winners of horse races at out of state

racetracks. BAUTSCH stated that there has been no race wire

service since Nola Printing Company terminated its operations

in September, 1961.

He stated that this has greatly affected

his business and the business of other bookmakers in the New

Orleans Metropolitan area.

BAUTSCH stated that he relies on

the daily racing form and the two New Orleans newspapers for

his out of state race results and pays his customers who

make winning bets on the day following the races, after he

has read the

race results in

these publications.

He stated that

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this same procedure is used by all the other bookmakers in

the area.

He said

that his volume of business prior to

September, 1961 was so large that he is positive that if

race vire service was available in

the New Orleans area, it

would be offered to him; therefore he is positive that no

such service is available.

PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING, also an active bookmaker

in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana,

advised on April 16 and

September 12, 1962, that there is no race wire service in

the New Orleans area and there has been none since Nola

Printing Company terminated its service in September, 1961.

Recently, information has come to the attention

of this office concerning two sources through which some

bookmakers and betters can obtain the identities of winning

horses at out of state racetracks.

On June 6, 1962, EDWARD WARE, JR., referred to

above, advised that within the past few weeks he had been

able to obtain some of the winning horses at out of state

racetracks between 45 minutes to l2 hours after the races

were run. He said he contacted three different individuals

in the city who occasionally would have the identities of

winning horses only.

These individuals would not have the

identities of place and show horses nor would they have the

paramutual prices on these horses. WARE stated the source

of this information was an employee of the New Orleans Times

Picayune Newspaper who obtained the race information from the

Associated Press Sports Ticker. This employee would then go

out to a barroom located at the corner of st.. Charles and

Poydras Streets which is near the Times Picayune Building

where he would make the information available. WARF said the

information was never available after 4:00 PM each day which

indicated to him that the employee of the newspaper got off from

work at that time.

He said that the racing information

provided through this source was not complete enough or reliable

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enough for bookmakers to pay off bets and could only be

used by some to satisfy their curiosity as to what horses

may have won races at some of the Eastern tracks. WARE

said that on some afternoons the source would only be able

to provide the names of one or two winning horses at only

one track and on other afternoons the source might have the

names of considerably more winners but on no occasion has

this source ever had enough information to enable bookmakers

to use the information in connection with their business.

On September 21, 1962, WARE advised that he had

determined that the employee at the Times Picayune Newspaper

is a person named "TONY" and that TONY is a relative of a

person named "JUNIOR" who he understands is a partner of

NICK NUCCIO, a bookmaker in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

Investigation is continuing to determine the

identity of the Times Picayune employee and the identities

of the individuals utilizing the information supplied by

this employee.

With regard to the other source of out of state

race information available to certain bookmakers and betters,

MT. T. CHANDLER JOSEY, Special Agent, Southern Bell Telephone

and Telegraph Company, New Orleans,

advised on September 18,

1962 that he was investigating a matter where an unknown

individual was using pay telephones in the New Orleans area

to make long distance calls to Chicago telephone Number WE-

9-1900.

The individual making these calls to this number is

retrieving the change he uses in making these calls thereby

defrauding the telephone company of the revenue of these

calls. JOSEY advised that he had determined that this Chicago

telephone number dispenses horse race information approximately

30 minutes after races have been run.

He said that this

information is apparently put on a tape recording so that

when any person calls the number they can receive the infor-

mation along with a short commercial announcement advertising

a publication known as "The Green Sheet". Mr. JOSEY stated

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that the identity of winning horses at various racetracks

are given along with the paramutual prices on the winning

horses

He said that this telephone number does not

dispense the identities of second and third place horses

or the paramutual prices on these horses.

In this connection, PCI EDWARD WARE, JE., advised

on September 21, 1962 that he was aware of the Chicago

telephone number and he had called this number for his own

personal use to find out whether a particular horse he may

have bet on had actually won.

WARE said calling parties

cannot determine the identities of second and third place

horses through this number nor can they obtain the mutual

prices

for second and third place horses.

He said the

information which could be obtained by calling this number

was not complete enoughtfor any bookmaker to utilize the

information obtained in connection with his wagering business

as a bookmaker must have complete results, which would include

the three winning horses of each race at each major race-

track in the country.

Investigation is continuing to determine additional

information concerning this telephone number and the use of

this number by betters and bookmakers in the New Orleans area.

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With regard to these football parley cards,

he is currently operating a horse race book at the Dixie

Kitchen Lounge.

BABCOCK stated he did not handle football

parley cards during the past football season because he

had bad luck financially with a football parley card of

his own which he tried to promote about two years ago.

BABCOCK said his own parley card was called the Buzzing

Bee card and he almost went broke when he had a large

number of winning players for two successive weekends,

based on poor "line" information he was receiving from

Manuel's Restaurant on Jefferson Highway in Jefferson

Parish.

PCI ANTHONY WILLIAM FREDO who claims he is one

of the best handicappers of the football games in the country

and who claims to have worked for LEO SCHAFFER in Canada,

Chicago, and Terre Haute, Indiana, has advised that anyone

successfully operating football parley cards would have to

receive good handicapping information. FREDO stated that

he knows of no one in Louisiana who is good enough to

handicap college and professional football games and that

the "line" used by successful football parley card operators

would have to come from somewhere out of Louisiana, as he,

FREDO refuses to give his selections to any of the

gamblers

in the New Orleans area. FREDO who is now an insurance

salesman, advised he still handicaps college and profes-

sional football games merely as an avocation but he does

sell this information to Maison Blanche Department Store

in New Orleans who publishes his selections under the

caption, "Mr. VIP" in Maison Blanche ads on the sports

pages of New Orleans newspapers each Friday during the

football season.

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this document was located by the Federal Government, based

upon information developed by this office (PCI RAYMOND L.

ROLLING) , MARCELLO was deported to Guatemala on April 4,

1961. He returned to the United

States on June 6, 1961,

illegally.

MARCELLO has since been charged with Illegal

Entry into the United States; for Fraud Against the Govern-

ment in connection with the obtaining of the fraudulent

Guatemalan birth certificate; and perjury for filing a

sworn document in a suit at Washington, D. C., against

Attorney General ROBERT KENNEDY and General SWING of the

INS.

Prosecution of the above charges has been held

up by a writ of coram nobis which MARCELLO is seeking in

U. S. District Court, New Orleans. This writ of coram

nobis siwoulde set aside MARCELLO's conviction in 1938

for violation of the Federal Narcotic Statute. Judge

ROBERT A. AINSWORTH, JR., U. S. District Court, New

Orleans, presently has under advisement MARCELLO's

petition forthe writ of coram nobis.

On May 18, 1962, NY 3368-C-TE was interviewed

by Agents of the New York Office.

New Yock has advised

that this informant has been associated with the higher

members of the criminal element in the New York City

metropolitan area for a numbercof years. During this

period he recalled the names of a number of individuals

who were either talked about or pointed out to him as

members of the Italian criminal syndicate from various

areas of the United States.

was CARLOS MARCELLO Of New Orleans.

The Philadelphia Office has a confidential

source who overheard a conversation in the Sicilian dialedt

on July 17, 1962, between ANGELO BRUNO, Philadelphia

hoodlum, RUSSELE BUFALINO, Kingston, Pennsylvania who

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attended the Appalachian meeting, PHILLIP MEDICO and PETER

MAGGIO, two other Pennsylvania hoodlums.

During this conversa-

tion the comment was made that CARLOS MARCELLO is the

representando officiale from New Orleans.

These individuals

were discussing the Government's efforts

to deport. MARCELLO

and they mentioned that MARCELLO is acquainted with SANTO

TRAFFICANTE who holds the same position in Florida and the

representando in Chicago who was not named. It was stated

during the conversation that TRAFTICANTE and Chicago

representando are both acquanted with singer-actor FRANK

SaNATRA who is friendly with 'the President's Father".

(b) • JOSEPH ALBERT PORETTO

PORETTO resides at 515 Robert E. Lee Boulevard,

Now Orleans, Louisiana. As noted above, he is manager of

Nola Printing Company

and one of the five partners of this

business which up until September, 196l, disseminated race

horse information and the results of races at all tracks

throughout the United States to bookmakers in:the New

Orleans area:

Investigation of PORETTO's activities

has revealed

that he operates the Town and Country Restaurant

and Lounge, 1221 Airline Highway, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

echelon informant.

Efforts arebeing made to develop PORETTO as a top

On February 2, 1962, PORETTO advised that Nola

Printing Company was not disseminating racing results

from any race track including the New Orleans Fair Grounds

Track.

He said he is not going to reinstitute Nola Race

Wire Service as long as there is any doubt about the new

Federal Legislation pertaining to interstate gambling

activities.

On June 15, 1962 PORETTO advised that the

"Daily Sports Bulletin"

is still being printed at 530 Iris

Avenue, the premises housing Nola Printing Company.

He

said the day that publication starts to lose money it

will be closed down.

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On June 7, 1962, PCI ROLLING and PCI JOSEPH KUSS,

the latter being a gambler and former bookmaker, advised.

that they have seen JOSEPH MARCELLO on numerous occasions

in the Town and Country Motel during the past three months

and neither believed MARCELLO to then be employed.

On July 25, 1962, Agent JOSEPH M. BRANDT, JR..

IRS, New Orleans, advised that

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(d) • SALVATORE DI PIAZZO, aka.

DI PIAZZO, Commonly known as SAM DI PIAZZA, resides

at No. 6 famela Place, Arabi, Louisiana On December 17, 1957;

DI PIAZZO and who has worked in DI

DO PiAZZo and who has worked in DI PIAZZO 55000K making estab-

lishment, advised that he considered DI PIAZZO a big time

book maker.

PILSBURY, who is a book maker and professional

gambler, said DI PIAuto was then operating a book making

establishment at 1609 Angela Street in Arabi. PILSBURY stated

DI PIAZZO had several contacts working in the telephone company

in New Orleans who were making free long distance telephone

calls for him in connection with his gambling activities.

On January 10, 1958, Information furnished by PILSBURY

was confidentially suppled to MI. brunt thonoon, begal

Division, Southern Bell Telephone

company, New Orleans. Mr.

THOMPSON

said that since June of 1957 Southern Bell had suspected

that some of its employees were making free long distance tele-

hone calls for individuals in the New Orleans area and efforts

were being made to determine the extent and scope of their

activities.

Mr. THOMPSON identified four telephone company employees

who were making free long distance telephone calls and furnished

a list of telephone numbers in various sections of the United

States which had been obtained by the telephone company during

its investigation.

On instructions of the Bureau the Information furnished

by PILSBURY and Mr. THOMPSON was made available to IRS in

New Orleans, on March 18, 1962.

On March 31, 1961, Agent NAURBON L. PERRY, IRS, New

Orleans, advised that

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C• PROSTITUTION

Sgt. FRED SOULE, Commanding Officer, New Orleans

Police Department, Vice Squad, advised September 21, 1962,

that prostitution activities in the city of New Orleans are

curtailed and closed almost completely.

He advised that NORMA

WALLACE, operator of the largest house of prostitution in the

,south at 1026 Conti Street, was arrested July 2, 1962, and

subsequently sentenced to 90 days in jail.

that this is NORMA WALlACE's first and only conviction although

et and only couvactaon

SOULE advised

she has been operating a house of prostitution in New Orleans

for the past 30 years.

Her house at 1026 Conti Street 1s

closed and up for sale. NORMA WALLACE 1s an Informant of the

New Orleans Office and states that she does not intend to

reopen 1026 Conti Street as a house of prostitution and hopes

to sell it for $75,000.

Another New Orleans madam, SUE

HENDRICKS, was arrested by the District Attorney's Office

according

to SOULE and is now awaiting trial and she has given

up her activities.

SOULE advised that he is currently working

on the prostitution activities of a number of New Orleans cab

drivers who are operating with individual prostitutes.

These

girls are working primarily in the larger hotels and motels

such as the Roosevelt Hotel, Monteleone Hotel and the Fontainebleau

Motor Hotel.. SOULE advised

that the house detectives in these

places are protecting these prostitutes.

SOULE stated that he

has been able with the cooperation of the management at some

of these places to send disguised Vice Officers into the estab

lishment, secure prostitution dates, and has a number of cases

pending against individual prostitutes.

Deputy Sheriff JOSEPH BATTAGLIA, Jefferson Parish

Sheriff's Office, advised on September Y, 1962, that the

Sheriff's Office of Jefferson Parish has

been ttaking a lot

of action in Jefferson Parish against prostitution in Jefferson

Parish, and making numerous arrests, however, this is strictly

"show boating".

He stated that while the prostitutes are

arrested they are usually released immediately and no action

is ever taken by the District Attorney's Office.

BATTAGLIAS

advised that the following are the principal locations 'in"

Jefferson Parish where prostitution activitles are going on:

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in the Huey Distributing Company, a pinball and music

distributor, which is one of the business interests

belonging to the MARCELLOs.

CARLOS MARCELLO has reported

income on his tax returns from the Huey Distributing Company.

Deputy

Sheriff GILlesPlE advised on October l, 1950, that

one of MARCELLO's daughters had been hired by the Paris

of Jefferson and was employed in the office of PHILLIP SMITH,

then the Parish Attorney.

Information 1s available indicating a close

alignment between CARLOS MARCELLO and Louisiana Governor

JINNIE H. DAVIS.

In this regard, on May 4, 1961, Mr.

CHARLES W. ERDMANN, Civil Defense Director

for the City

of New Orleans, furnished information to this office that

CARLOS MARCELLO endeavored to help him receive from Governor

DAVIS the appointment as New Orleans Civil Defense Director.

Mr. ERDMANN said he wanted it known that he did not solicit

MARCELLO's assistance, nor did he feel that MARCELLO's

actions in any way aided in his receiving this appointment.

He said that on March 14, 1961, at the suggestion of the

then Mayor of New Orleans, DE LESSEPS S. MORRISON, he

went to the office of Mr. CHARLES SPENCER, who was formerly

President of Jefferson Parish.

Mayor MORRISON felt that

ERDMANN should seek Mr. SPENCER's assistance in getting

the appointment of Civil Defense Director.

on his arrival

at Mr. SPENCER's office, ERDMANN found that CARLOS MARCELLO

MARCELLO told ERDMANN that he

was going to Baton Rouge to see Governor DAVIS on the

following morning and

that he wanted to recommend to the

Governor that ERDMANN receive the appointment. • MARCELLO

said he was doing this as a personal favor not only for

ERDMANN but for Mr. SPENCER.

ERDMANN prepared a short

the resume at the Town and Country Motel as MARCELLO had

suggested.

On March 24, 1961, MARCELLO telephoned ERDMANN

and criticized ERDMANN for having had Mayor MORRISON write

a letter recommending ERDMANN's appointment.

MARCELLO

said that Governor DAVIS had not been pleased with receiving

the letter of nomination from the Mayor.

On March 29, 1961, PCI

ALOYSIUS DARGIS, a Jefferson

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Parish coin machine distributor and a bail bondsman in

Jefferson Parish, advised that there is no doubt in his

mind that Sheriff JOHN G. FITZGERALD has allowed gamblers

to operate in Jefferson Parish. DARGIS said that persons

interested in seeing gambling operate in the parish have

"wined and dined" FITZGERALD ever since he became Sheriff.

DARGIS said he has heard rumors that FITZGERALD has been

provided with women whenever he wanted them, and in this

way, persons interested in seeing gambling continue have

more or less compromised FIIZGERALD to the extend that it

1s difficult for him to turn down their requests or refuse

them whenever they ask for a favor.

On September 12, 1962, PCI RAYMOND L. ROLLING

advised of a conversation he recently had with AL SCHORLING

after SCHORLING had been drinking. Investigation concerning

the Chesterfield Club, a gambling casino in Jefferson

Parish, has disclosed

that SCHORLING is connected with

the operation of that club.

SCHORLING told ROLLING that the

profits of the Chesterfield Club are

split as follows:

AL SCHORLING - 10%; ALBERT J. SALZER - 20%;

FRANK L. TRIDICO - 10%; CARLOS and JOSEPH

MARCELLO - 30%; SALVADOR BOHEMIA - 10%;

Jefferson Parish District Attorney FRANK

LANGRIDGE - 10%; Sheriff JOHN G. FITZGERALD - 10%.

SCHORLING told ROLLING that he was the one who

"took care" of the District Attorney and Sheriff FITZGERALD.

ROLLING advised that he is of the opinion that the reason

CARLOS and JOSEPH MARCELLO receive 30% of the profits of

the. Chesterfield Club 1s because CARLOS MARCELLO 1s the

person responsible for insuring that the Chesterfield Club

can operate unmolested and without harassment by state

authorities.

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G

TOP ECHELON CRIMINAL INFORMANTS

By communication of May 9, 1962, the Bureau

Instructed that certain individuals

among

the hoodlun

element in this division be selected as targets for

development as top echelon criminal informants.

Four such

Individuals have been selected by this ortice under chis

program:

These are as 10d1ows:

JOSEPH ALBERT PORETTO

JOSEPH MARCELLO, JR.

JACK NOLA SIDNEX DENNIS

HARRY BENNETT

Under this program the Bureau pointed out that

any individuals selected

gould be contacted concerning

criminal intelligence matters but he should not be interviewed

as a criminal informant without specitlc Bureau authority.

We are in the process of contacting these informants

conceming criminal intelligence matters and so far JOSEPH

ALBERT POREITO presents the best possibility as a top echelon

informant, None of these informanto have been contacted to

date to determine their willingness to serve as informants.

Bureau authority must be obtained before this is done.

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Law 11(a)

MONOMERY 3a1d/

JFK

Law 11(a)

Agents interviewed JOSEPH TARANTO at the 406 Club

in Biloxi on April 13, 1962, and he admitted making local

bets on sporting events and

paying off on the bases of results

received through regular news media. He claimed he had

discontinued gambling and bookmaking operations of an

interstate nature since September, 1961, and because he cannot

obtain race wire service, he refuses to

take bets on horses

at least fifteen minutes

prior to published post times in

order to avoid being past posted. TARANTO said he was

getting out of the bookmaking business because it is no

longer financially successful.

In this connection, MONTOOMERY advised on July

25, 1962, that

on July 23, 1962, HARRY BENNETT told Agents he was

still accepting local bets but denied having anything to do with

bookmaking activities having an interstate character.

On September 12, 1962,

New Orleans 1002-6g a

professional gambler on the Gulf Coast, advised that JAcK

JOSEPH FRENCH Of Pass Christian, one of the largest bookmakers

on the gull coast, is now limiting his bookmaking activities

to small bets for local customers and paying off winners

after obtaining results through regular news media.

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JEANNETLE GARRIGA, operator of the Ace of Clubs and ex-wile

of. Gulf Coast racketeer JOSEPH ASA GARRIGA, Jr, contidentially

told him that she had gotten Sheriff DEDEAUX's permission to

operate the Ace of Clubs with GANAS.

She said

she and GANAS

saw DEDEAUX and the latter's wife at dinner one night in one

of the beach restaurants at Biloxi. GANAS immediately recog-

nized DEDEAUX's wife as a strip tease dancer GANAS had

employed several years ago in Montgomery, Alabama.

JEANETTE

GARRIGA told Mr. TRIQG that Mrs. DEDEAUX

and DEDEAUX subsequently ordered him to leave town in order

to prevent embarrassment to the Sheriff and his wife. Mr.

TRIGG said GANAS had not intended to operate gambling at

the Ace of Clubs but had Intended to present strip tease

dancers at the establishment.

On 3/15/62, PCI ELIZABETH WARREN, who frequents

night clubs and gambling establishments on

the Gull coast,

advised she nad been in the ace of clubs on several occasions

recently and that this place was being operated by JEANETTE

GARRIGA. She said she saw no evidence of gambling, and the

only entertainment was a small band and a strip show with

the dancers engaging in B-drinking between performances.

This same PCI advised that during the previous

week end she had been in Bob & Joe's Lounge, Pat Harrison

Avenue, Biloxl, and observed several B-girls operating as

was a blackjack table which was being run by an unknown

white male.

PCI said there were very few customers in the

these were very

place at that time.

Additional information 1s set forth

under the Prostitution section concerning Bob & Joe's Lounge.

advised that ROGER D'ANGELO and his brother DEWEY were

operating a place known as Buzz's Lounge in North Gulfport,

but blackjack was the only gambling going on in this place.

The informant pointed out that ROGER D'ANGELO had formerly

worked as a dealer at The Spot in M1s81ssipp1 City but was

fired by LOUIS PORTER, operator of The Spot, when ASA

GARRICA and EDDIE GARRIGA began frequenting

the place because

of the D'ANGELOS' presence.

With regard to the Flesta Club, the property of

JAKE and JOHN MLADNICH, PCI ELIZABETH WARREN,, referred to

above, advised she has

frequented this place on numerous

occasions and has observed that there 1s no evidence of

gambling at the establishment.

She pointed out that there

1s a large upstairs room over the Fiesta Club which was

built for

the purpose of gambling if and when the Coast

"opens up" for gambling.

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With regard to JAKE and JOHN MLADNICH 1t 1s to

be noted that these individuals own and operate the Cabana

Beach Motel, the Fiesta Cocktail Lounge and Trader John's

Sea 'n Sirloin Room in Mississippi City.

The Sea 'n Sirloin

Room and the Cabana Beach Motel are a very new, modern and

swank motel and restaurant catering to the tourist trade

attracted to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

On 7/18/62, NO 1017C, a whiskey runner who is

familiar with bookmaking and gambling on the Mississippi

Gulf Coast, advised that GEORGE ANDERSON had reopened

gambling at the H1-Hat Club in North Biloxl but was only

running a nightly blackjack game.

No 11786, a barmaid

who formerly worked at the H1-Hat Club, advised on 7/10/02

that ANDERSON was then operating a small poker game as

well as blackjack.

This informant: said ANDERSON remarked

913h27/62 that SherIff DEDBAUX had given him tine

"go ahead

on gambling.

on 9/14/62 this

informant advised that

ANDERSON is very 1l1 with heart trouble and will turn over

his operation at the H1-Hat to his girl friend ANN TAXLOR

and to NINA PHILIPS who is currently operating the H1-Hat

as a Negro beer Joint.

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With regard to the Key Club at Biloxi, Mississippi,

mentioned above as one of the gambling casinos we have investi

gated, on March 9, 1962, an Agent was in this establishment

on another investigation.

He observed "one-armed-bandit-type"

slot machines, a crap table, and a blackjack table in operation.

He recognized JOIN ROMEO, the operator of the place, as well

aS JACK DENNIS and three other individuals known to the Agent

to be local gamblers.

As late as September 17, 1962,

NO 1024 - C,

who is familiar with ganbling on the Gulf Coast, confirmed that

gembling 1s still being carried on at the Key Club.

With regard to the National Guard raid on The Spot

at Mississippl City on June 13, 196%, NO 1178 - C, a barnazo

and prostitute, advised that the ganbling eguipment seized

was equipment which the owner, JANES, L. PORTEB,

has had in storage for a number of years.

The Informant said

notwithstanding the National Guard raid PORTER is still operating

poker and possibly blackjack in the rear of the place.

Intormant

Said PORTER is converting The Spot into a restaurant and has

indicated he may discontinue gambling altogether.

with regard to other places operating in farrison

County, on September 10, 1962, Lieutenant ROBERT PARKER, Harri-

son County Sheriff's Office, Gulfport, Mississippi, advised

that one "LANKY" ORRELS is operating a small poker

game at

Velma's Lounge on Old Highway 49 North, Guliport.

PARKER ad-

vised that the only gambling on the Gulf Coast at the time

of the interview was local poker and rummy games. He knew

of no out-of-state gamblers operating in the area. Lleutenant

PARKER's veracity can be judged by the fact that be has been

willing to furnish infornation to Agents concerning operations

involving his superior, Sheriff CURTIS O. DEDEAUX,

he to assured the information furnished by him wiin re treated

in confidence.

PARKER 1s leaving the Shoriff's Office to joia

the Mississipp1 Highway Safety Patrol,

With regard to the gambling situation in general on

the Gulf Coast, the April 30, 1962, Issue of the Bilost - Guliport

Dally Herald Newspaper reported that ganbling is not as extensive

in the area as it formerly was.

The August 16, 196%, Issue of

sane newspaper quoted Governor ROSS BARNETT aS

saying his

Investigators checked the Gulf Coast periodically and these

probes showed "mighty little, if any, gambling."

The: September 15, 1962, Issue of this newspaper carried

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Issue of the Biloxl - Gulfport Dally Herald reported that on

that date ROBERSON was transferred to the Mississippi State

Penitentiary to serve a three-year sentence for sale of narcotics.

On February 2s, 1962, Patrolman T. P. NAYLOR, Missis-

sipp. Higaway Safety Patrol, a

Purenu of Narcotica School for Police Officers, advised that

nareotics on the Mississippi Gull Coast are limited primarily

to barbiturates and derivatives distributed through Coast

night clubs.

C. PROSTITUTION

Prinoipal prostitution activity in the Southern

Judicial District of Mississippi is centered on the Gulf

Coast. For some time this Office has been conducting investi-

gation concerning a large prostitution ring operating in the

Gulf Coast area.

This case 1e entitled, "HUCH R. BROACH, JR. ;

JOSEE ASA GARRICA, ET AL; VIRGINIA

• ARAIM, aka., ET AL; VSTA =

CONSPIRACY," (Dureau File 31-89143; New Orleans File 31-7380).

It is expected that this case will

be presented to a Federal

Grand Jury in the Southern District of Miesissippi

about October

I, 19568e

On February 28, 1962, NO 1017 - C, who has been

associated with membors of the criminal element for the past

20 years,

AQVISed SA PERCY V. RICHARDSON that the only organized

prostitution on the Mississippi Gulf Coast 1s that operated

by JOSEPH ASA GARRIGA, JR., and his brother, EDDIE CARL GARRICA,

out of taels night club, Bob and Joe's Lounge, Pat Harrison

avenue, Biloxi, Mississippi.

This Informant said the GARRIGAS

have worked prostitutes fron Mobile, Alabana, and New Orleans

and Bogaluca, Louisiana.

On March 1, 1962, DOROTHY ALLEN CORTEZ, A narcotics

addict and prostitute, advised in confidence when

interviewed

at Gulfport,

that ASA and EDDIE GARRIGA operate Bob and Joe's

Lounge as a

house of prostitution utilizing girls from New

Orleans and other locales:

The place is patronized primarily

by service men fron nearby Keesler Air Force Base and dates

are filled in the cabins located in the rear of the Lounge.

The Informant said ASA GARRIGA is known for his brutal treat

ment of his girls and sold he makes it a policy to personally

have sexual relations with a new girl before she begins hustling

for him. The Informant said that she went to work for GARRIGA

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in about June, 1961.

Prior to that tine she had been a prisoner

in the Harrison County Jail at Gulfport.

GARRIGA came to her

cell in the jail and agreed to go her bond if she would agree

to hustle for hiu.

Intormant said theroafter she had sexual re

lations with GARRICA in an apartmont on the first floor of

the Farrison County Jail and, two or three days later, GARRIGA

made her bond.

On April 10, 1954, NO 1017 - C (identified above)

advised that ASA and EDDIE GARRIGA had apparently leased the

Bob and Joe's Lounge to IVAN "LANKY" ORRELS. Informant believes

OrRELS was merely a front for the GARRAGAs.

On March 30, 1962,

ORRELS, when Interviewed at Bob and Joe's Lounge, told Agents

he had

leased this place Iron ASA GARRIGA and he

was now the

sole owner.

on septenDer 1, 1562, H0 1118 - C, a prostitute,

aQViSOd thAt ASA GANNIGA waS then trying to open a joint at

Pass Christian, Mississipps, with the aid of Constable BRAVO

the place to

be operated by a girl

friend of

WOODCOCK s. The Informant said that Bob and Joe's Lounge

has been closed since about the middle of August, 1962, when

Sheriff CORIIS O. DEDEAUX raided the place and arrested IVAN

"LANKY" ORRELS and his associates. The Informant stated that

Sheriff DEDEAUX has had a "falling out" uith both ORRELS and

The Informant said that

recently she heard that DEDEAUX was madeat GARRIGA bacause

of some slurring remark GARRIGA had recently made concerning

DEDEAUX's vifo, vao is & former strip-tease dancer fron Illinois.

with regard to the close association of Sherlit

DEDEAUX and GARRICA, additional information is set forth below

in the section under

Vice and Corruption.

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On Septenber 12, 1962, CI BUFORD CLIFTON WOODCOCK

(NO 1002-C), & bar and lounge operator and gambler in

Pass Christian, Mississippl, advised that the three

major liquor vholesalers in Harrison County are as follows:

D. J. VENUS, _III

D. J. Veaus

Beverage Company

Guliport, Mississippi

JAMES MITCHELL

M & M Beverage Company

Pass Christian, Mississippi

GROVER GRAHAM

Grover Graham Junior & Company

Bilori, Mississippi

NO 1002-C said all of the above obtain their

whiskey fron Louisiana distributors, and all are believed

to sell whiskey in areas outside Harrison County, as well

as in Harrison County.

On September 13, 1962, NO 1115-C, Bay St. Louis,

Mississippi, who is acquainted with criminal activities

in that area, advised that Stiffel Brothers is a whole-

sale liquor distributor at Waveland, Mississippi. Infor-

mant said hancock county sheriff GERALD V. PRICE, SR. iS

reported to have recently purchased an interest in Steffel

Brothers.

The infornant said PRICE reportedly gets a fee

fron whiskey coming through Hancock County destined for

wholesalers

In adjoining Harrison County.

Investigation has revealed that "moonshiners"

in Pearl River County aze the principal sources of

"moonshine" whiskey in the Southern Judicial District of

Mississippi. On April 4, 1962, ROLAND CRANFORD, Alcohol

* Tobacco Tax Division, Gulfport, Mississippi,

advised

that Alcohol & Tobacco Tax Division Agents raided a giant

"moonshine" whiskey still in Pearl River County, Mississ-

ippi on March 18, 1962.

The still was capable of produc

ing 700

gallons of whiskey & day. A number of individuals

were arrested during this raid.

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E.

BOMB INGS

Sheriff DEDEAUX, who then lived in Mississippi City,

was denolishod by explosives as the car sat in front of the

Danuals spartment at about 2:30 Ad. During the early

morning hours of September 2, 1962, the private plane of

District Attorney J, BOYCE HOLLINAN was destroyed by a

bomb at Wiggins, Mississippi.

with regard to bombing of DEDEAUX's automobile,

on February 13, 1982, NO 1017-C, anassociate of the

criminal element on the Gulf Coast and a former tavern

owner there, advised it yos generally belleved among the

criminal olement of Harrison County that the bombing of

DEDEAUX's car was the result of animosity on the part of

AL+ ROBINSON

and GRADY ALLEN who were being investigated

by the Sheritt a Offico for involvement in narcotics.

Informant said it is believed among the criminal element

that outus be cront,

Ile, a bootlestor and thiet and an

associate ot ROBINSON

actualty placed the explosives in

the carg

The informant said it is also generally belleved

by the criminal aloment that Mc CRORY, may have bombed

HOLLINAN's plane and represented individunle in the county

who resented having been prosecuted by HOLl MAN.

office, Gulfport, advised

IRENE CRAIN FAVRE, former wife of HORACE CRAIN in which

she alleged that HORACE CRAIN, HAROLD WARE BURT and DAVID

KRAKER bombed DEDEAUX's automobile, LADNER said these three

individuals had been arrosted and questioned concerning

the bomblug but no admissions were obtained fron them

although HAROLD BURI admitted by inferenco that it was

CRAIN's idento bonb the Sheriff's car.

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On June 31, 1962, NO 1017C (KRAKER) advisod again

tha:

OLIUS NC CRORY waS involved in the bonbing of DIDEAUX'S

cat.

At this time the informant said the actual bombing

WAS

reportedly done by GEORCE FUQUA (top hoodlum of the Dallas

Division) who had a grudge against DIDEAUX for jailing FUQUA

and a companion, JANIS DOLAND; Along with FuQUA's girl friend

approminatoly two yearg ago.

The informant said he felt

certain that rUQUA also bombed District Attorney HOLLIMAN's

private plane.

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F. CRAFT AND CORRUPTION

On the basis of information furnished by informants

and through information developed by our Agents through other

investigations, it is apparent that lay enforcement officials

in the Mississippi Gulf Coast area permit gambling and the

sale of whiskey because they are receiving pay-offs.

On March 24, 1962, NO 1002-C, a tavern operator

and gambler in Pass Christian, Mississippi, said that all

tax pald whiskey in Harrison County and numerous counties

north of the Coast to the Meridian, Mississippi area, 1$

hahdled through three wholesalers.

These are GROVER

GRAHAM, JR., D. J. VENUS,

and JANIss MITCheLL.

The informant

said Harrison County Sheriff, CURTIS O. DEDEAUX, and Harrison

County Jail Warden, LAWRENCE MENSI, are Silent partners with

MITCHELL. Informant said the "rake off" to law enforcement

offleers

on the cases of whiskey sold by these wholesalers

runs between $7.00 and $8.00 per case when all involved have

taken their cut.

The informant said most individuals buy-

1ng

whiskey from these wholesalers feel

that Governor ROSS

BARNETT gets paid off on the basis of $1.00 per case.

JOHN E. MONTGOMERY, Internal Revenue Service,

Gulfport,

Mississippl, advised on April 4, 1962, that

TEK Law 11(à

on May 9, 1962,

NO 1002-C,

& Pass Christian

tavern operator and gambler,

again advised that the pay-off

on liquor per case was from $7.00

to $8.00. The infornant

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said this pay off is collected by the three wholesalers

in Harrison County by adding it to the cost of the liquer.

The informant said the division of the pay-off at the begin-

ning of DEDEAUX's term of office was a five-way split

between DEDEAUX, former Harrison County Sberiff J. J. WITT-

man, former Harrison county Sheriff Liz QuAVE, present

District Attorney H. BOYCK HOLLEMAN, and Harrison County

Attorney GASTON HUGHES.

On June 28,

1962, this informant said that he

has been connected with illegal activities most of his

adult life and is aware

of official sanction of illegal

activity in various parts of the country.. He said that

Harrison County officials at the present time are the

worst he has ever encountered.

few exceptions, the elected officials are tied in with

educted or setis aro

he said that with very

illegal activity in sone manner.

On June 21, 1962, NO 1017-C, a former tavern

operator and an associate of the criminal element on the

Gulf Coast, advised that he had never seen things as bad

the current situation existing in the Harrison County

Sheriff's Office, and the degree of association of 1n-

dividuals in that office with local hoodluns.

Informant

said Lieutenant BOBERT PARKER and Deputy Sheriff HUGH R.

BROACH, Harrison County Sheriff's Office, are in his

opinion involved in ASA GARRIGA's house of prostitution

at Bob & Joe's Lounge in Biloxl.

Informant said that Sheriff CURTIS DEDEAUX 1s

an alcoholic and when intoxicated is extremely unreason-

able, having a dual personality.

On April 11, 196z, NO 118%-C, & Negro nightclub

owner,

advised that DADEAUX

had fired two of his Negro

Doputy Sheriffs, CHARLES HOPPER and JESSE WILLIAMS, because

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they were "cutting into" the pay-off by Negro tavern

operators to the Sheriff by taking pay-offs of their

own. This infornation was confirmed on April 24, 1962,

by NO 11SI-C, who frequents Negro taverns in the Gulf-

port area, who said he had picked up runors of the

reason these deputies were fired through talking to

various Negro tavern operators in the area, who were

not in sympathy with the Deputies.

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As noted above, the Mississippi National Guard

raided three gambling establishments

In Harrison County on

the evening of 6/13/62.

On 6/14/62, NO 11780, a former

barmaid in one of the gambling spots in Gulfport and a

prostitute, advised that she learned that Sheriff DEDEAUX

got very upset because he received no advance warning con-

cerning these raids.

The informant said DEDEAUX ordered

all intoxicating beverages on the coast removed from

sight and ordered some of the establishments on the coast

to close temporarily to avoid further raids. According to

informant, DEDEAUX got "roaring drunk" in his office

on the night of 6/13/62, and on the following morning he

had to be taken to the hospital because of his intoxicated

condition.

With regard to Sheriff DEDEAUX's alcoholism, on

7/10/62, NO 11900, a professional bail bondsman having

access

to the Harrison County Sheriff's Office, said that

on the night of 7/5/62 DEDEAUX became quite Intoxicated

and belligerent. He called in his entire staff and in

abusive language criticized them for what he termed their

disloyalty to him.

Two or three deputles resigned during

DEDEAUX's harangue, and one of them had to be physically

restrained from assaulting DEDEAUX. The Informant said

that for the past two or three weeks prior to the date

of the interview, DEDEAUX had been constantly in a state

of intoxication and was in and out of his office at all

hours of the day and night frequently issuing countermanding

orders

thus creating a state of confusion and indecision on

the part of his entire staff.

As noted in the prostitution section of this

brief, LINDA CORTEZ admitted in an interview that she

had been confined to the Harrison County Jail and was

bonded out of jail by ASA GARRIGA in order to hustle for

him after having had sexual relations with him in an

apartment on the first floor of the jail. In this connection,

sergeant huGh BroACh, Jr., harrison County Deputy Sheriff,

admitted to our agents on 3/6/62 that on three or four

occasions in July, 1961, he had taken CARRIGA upstairs to

see CORTEZ, who was

then a prisoner in the jail.

On 9/10/62, Lt. ROBERT PARKER, Harrison County

Sheriff's Office,

furnished the following Information in

confidence to agents:

ASA

ASA GARRIGA has been operating Bob and Joe's

Lounge and the cabins back of this place as a house of

prostitution for over a year with the full knowledge and

consent of Sheriff CURTIS O. DEDEAUX. The Sheriff allowed

GARRIGA to operate because GARRIGA was paying off DEDEAUX

and Constables PETE PARKER and JERRY TIBLIER.

Another

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reason, according to PARKeR, that GARRIGA cOuld operate

without fear of molestation

from DEDEAUX, Is becaUse

GARRIGA knew

that DEDEAUX previously had

sexual relations

with GARRIGA's young sister while the latter was a prisoner

in the Harrison County Jail.

PARKER stated that GARRIGA leased Bob and Joe's

Lounge to IVAN ORRELS in March, 1962, and later wanted to

get ORRELS out of the place so

he could take it over

again.

PARKER claimed GARRIGA used his influence over

DEDEAUX to cause DEDEAUX to conduct numerous raids in the

place thereby forcing ORRELS to close it.

PARKER said

this place is due to reopen with ASA and EDDIE GARRIGA

running it again.

PARKER said that while the GARRIGA brothers

were operating there at Bob and Joe's Lounge they were

in this place.

PARKER said that since DEDEAUX has been sheriff

and until about three months ago there had been a monthly

payoff going from the Sheriff's Office to Jackson, Miss1s-

sippi, presumably to Governor BARNETT. PARKER said he did

not know the amount but had heard it ran in the vicinity

of $40,000.00 a month,

and he understood Deputy Sheriff

HUGH BROACH, Jr., would take the money to Jackson when he

delivered prisoners to the State Hospital at Whitfield near

Jackson.

PARKER said that HUGH BROACH has a one-half

interest in the Peppermint Lounge on Pat Harrison Avenue

in Biloxi.

PARKER stated that some of the trusties working

in the Identification Bureau at the Sheriff's Office dispose

of records at random and on occasion have sexual relations

with women prisoners in the jail.

He said Sheriff DEDEAUX

1s an alcoholic frequently coming to the office at night

drunk and belligerent, firing his entire staff only to

rehire them the next day.

With regard to possible payoffs to Governor

BARNETT, on 9/12/62 NO 1002C, a gambler and tavern operator

in Pass Christian, in commenting about a payoff of $7.00

to $8.00 a case on whiskey sold in Harrison County, stated

that as far as he had been able to learn Governor BARNETT

1s still getting between $20,000.00 to $30,000.00 per month

from whiskey sales on the Gulf Coast. Informant was unable

to advise: the method of payment or who was involved directly

in making the payment.

The 8/22/62 issue of the Biloxi-

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Gulfport Daily Herald newspaper reported that AARON M.

KOHN, Managing Director, Metropolitan Crime Commission of

New Orleans, in a speech on the Gulf Coast, stated that

JAKE and JOHN MLADNICH, operators of the Cabana Beach

Motel and Trader John's Sea 'n Sirloin Room In Mississippi

City were closely allied with the MARCELLO Interests in

New Orleans•

According to the article, KOHN linked a

coin-operated novelty company in Biloxi with one in New

Orleans, named people connected with book layoffs in the

area and called out the names of about a dozen lounges

on the Gulf Coast which he said had connections with New

Orleans racketeers;

The story reported that JAKE and JOHN

MLADNICH appeared at this meeting and publlely stated that

they. had no connection with the MARCELLO operation.

The 8/23/62 1ssue of this newspaper publicized

the fact that Sheriff DEDEAUX was critical of KOHN in his

remarks:

In this connection, NO 1190C, a professional

bail bondsman who frequents the Harrison County Sheriff's

Office, said on 9/13/02 that DeduAux nad been nighty

incensed over KOHN's remarks. THis informant said he had

heard it rumored before that CARLOS MARCELLO might have a

connection with the MLADNICH holdings in Mississippi city,

but he had no information that this was so and was of the

opinion that these rumors merely developed because the

MLADNICH family have been successful in their business

interests and are moderately wealthy:

Our investigation of CARLOS: MARCELLO has not

disclosed that he has any connection with gambling and

other vice on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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INDEX

A.

ABRAM'S, DOUGLAS

ACE OF CLUBS, THE

AINSWORTE, ROBERT A. JR.

AILA, ANTHONY JOSEPH -

ALBIN, J. D.--

ALLEN, GRADY

ANMIRIO, RALPH

ANDERSON, GEORGE

ARAIM, VIRGINIA

ARNOULT, JAVES -

BASCOCK, BLGAR -

BAGNERIS, LOUIS E.

BAGNERIS, ALBERT E.

BANKS, WILLIE -

BARNETT, ROSS GOVERNOR

BATTAGLIA, JOSEPH

BAYOU MOTEL, THE

BACKESY, GILSEET LEL

BENGLHINA, ALEX T.

BENNETT, HARRY -

BENDER,

EUGENE J. JR.

BEVERLY LOUNGE, THE --

BIG A EDOTBALL PARLEY CARD

BIG L. A. LOTIERY

BLAIZE, BERNARD A. --

BLAIZE, BERNARD ANDREW

BLUE HORSESHOE LOTTERY

BLUE LOTTERY

BLUE TOP, THE

BOB AND JOB'S LOUNGE

BOHEMIA, SALVADOR

BOURGEOIS, OSWALD ROBERT -

BRANDT, JOSEPH M. JR.

BROACH, HUGH JE.

B.

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Page

NO.

17

55-56

27

14-15

45

65

55-58

61

21

24 g

32

33

42

59,

34

35

32

22

43

18

55

23

21

54

49

21

22

17

57,

18

21

29

61,

50-51

67,

71

50-52

56

61,

40

71

68,

70, 71

109.1

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DE LIBERTO, CYRIL --

DELTA FOOTBALL PARLEY CARD

DENNIS, JACK ----

DENNIS,

JACK NOLA SIDNEY *

DI PIAZZO, SALVATORE ---

DI VINCENTE, VICHY

DIXIE FOOTBALL PARLEY CARD

DIXIE KITCHEN LOUNGE -

DOLAN, JAMES -

DRANDW, Венедна

DUTHU, EDWARD

DYER,

HERSCHEL

BIGHIB DAY LOUNGE,

THE

ELEUTERIUS; RONNIE

EMORY, RALPH -

ERDMANN, CHARLES W.

seasons on

FAVRE, TRENE CRAIN

FIESTA CLUB, THE

FILIPICH, NICKOLAS PAUL

FINE,

SWEALt S.

FITZGERALD, JOHN G.

FITZGERALD, JOIN G. "JACK"

PIVE O'CLOCK CLUB, TAB

FLAG AND WHEEL LOTTERY

FONTA INTELEAU HOTEL

FORSTIE, LUCIUS

FOUR ZERO SIZ CLUB

FREDO, ANTHONY WILLIAN

FRANCH, BENVIE -

FRENCH'S BENNIE -

FRENCH, JACKS JOSEPH -

FRIENDSHIP HOUSE, THE

FUQUA, GEORGE -

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38

No:

23

52-54,

59

48,

50-52,

31

31-32

21-12

23

50

66

41-42

37

55

56

55

54

39

г.

65

54,

49

47

57

54

53

III

509-10.983

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JOSSPH, CAMILLE

S.

JOSEY, T. CHANDLER

JUNIOR

KAIN, JOULES

KEY CLUB, THE

KLAYMAN, SIMON

KLE IN, A. J.

KOHN, AARON M.

KRAKER, DAVID

KRAMEE, MICHAEL

LADNER,

H. do

LAMBERT'S BAR

LANGRIDGE, FRANK

LAPPEYRONIE, C. MRS.

LASSORE, BENJAMIN -

LASSOFT, ROBERI-

LITTLE FABLE LOTTERY

LUPE, ANTHONY COSITE

MADERE, RICHARD

MAGG 1O, PETER

MARCELLO, CARLOS

MARCELLO, JOSEPH

MARCELLO, JOSEPH JR.

MARINO, FRANK

MARTIN, DENNIS

MARTINO, PETER J.

MART INO, PETER JOSEPH

MART INO,

WARREN

MASON,

FERREL O.

MC CRORY, OLIUS

MEDICO, PHILLIP

JR.

MENSI, LAWRENCE

MILLER, BEAUREGARD

MILLER, JOSEPH A. JE.

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Lo

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52

• No.

9

35

54,

56,

33

45

72

65'

40a

18

65

17

40

19

32

32

22

59

20

28

2,

2,

43

33

52

32

41

65

28

67

18

18

38,

39,

29,

40

53

399-0.

388

72

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PINES MOTEL, THE

PORETTO, JOSEPH A.

PORETTO, JOSEPH ALBERT

PORTER, JAMSS I. --

PORTER, LOUIS -

PRICE, GERALD V. SR.

QUAVS, Let

RED AND BLUE AMUSEMENT COMPANY

REYN, ALFRED A.

ROACH,

MIKE -

ROBERSON, AL C.

2234 200 20

ROBERTS, RIPPOL C.

ROBIN'S

LOUNGE

ROSSETTI, ANGELO

ROUSSEL,

EDWARD J.

ROYAL, FRANK -

RUCK, JEFFERSON N.

SALA, SAM

SAIA, SAW A.

JR.

SALZER, ALBERT, J.

Sentin, d

SCHORLING, hu

SOUTTAD LOUNGE

SEVERAN, JANES MELVIN

SHANGRI-LA, THE

SHATTLES, OTIS --

SILIPSON, BILL SIDNEY

SIMPSON, RENA DARLENE

SIMPSON, TANNY LEE --

S & M FOOTBALL PARLEY CARD

SHITH, STANLEY PATRICK --

SMITH, WOOD H. ----

SNELLING, DR.

M.

SOULE, SGT. FRED -

VII

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35

No.

3

56,

57

63

28,

59

68

29,

48

22

32

35

60,

21

35

54,

6

15

21

41

4,

11

18,

24

20,

-35

42

55

63

45,

45

45

23

15

60

34

65

56,

59

20

40

40

46

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SPENCER, CHARLES

SPORTSDAY VEEKLY

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE

SPOT, THE -

STRATE, BACHARY A. JR.

STRINGER, DR.

TARANTO, JOSEPH

TARANTO, JOSEPH SALVADORE -

TAYLOR, ANN

TERRY, MORRIS

TERRY, WILLIAM E.

THOMPSON, DRUBY

TIBLIER, JERRY

TONY

«19 00

TRIANGLE BLUE LOTTERY

TRIANGLE RED LOTTERY

TRIDICO, FRANK Le

TRIGG, JERRY WALLACE

TRY LIE BAR & NEWSSTAND

TUCKER, ЕМНЕГТ

TWO JAYS BAR

TYRONS, DR.

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39

6

49

56,

59

41

60

T.

52g

53

50

58

20

20

31

70,

71

9

21

21

20,

56

52

46

11

60

U.

OCHELLO, GUY N.

UCHELLO, SAM

F.

VENUS,

VENUS,

D.

elio

Do

J. III

WALLACE, NORHA

WARS,

EDARD JE.

WE INBLATT, ABE I.

WILLIAMS,

JESSIE

WITTHAN,

J.e.

WOODCOCK, BRAVO

54

49

V.

67

64

34

6-9

42

68

68

62

VIII

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