Originator: FBI
From: LR
To: HQ
Document date: 04/15/1947
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/27/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90032-10023

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-75147-25-45

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LR

TO : HO

TITLE:

DATE:

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SUBJECTS:

04/15/1947

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GENERAL CRIME SURVEY SEMI ANNUAL REPORT

MILTON JAFFE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

CRIME SURVEY

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

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GENERAL CRIME SURVEY

SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT

LITTLE ROCK FIELD DIVISION

FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS

APRII, 15, 1947

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIMIED

DATE 1-2-916 BY 5668 SLD/KSl

(JFK)

Background information pertaining to Fort Smith, Arkansas, '

was set out in the initial survey report. As the principal change in this

connection pertained to closing Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, located some eight

miles from Fort Smith, and this information was included in the last survey

report, such background information will not be repeated.

A. ORGANIZED GANGS

Confidential informants and sources of intormation are of

the opinion no organized gangs are operating in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and

vicinityo

3o INDIVIDUAL RACKETEERS AND MOBSTERS

LP-376; OTTO METZGER, Chief Deputy Sheriff; and WESLEY

PRICE, Identification Officer of the Fort Snith Police Department, furnished

the folloring information concerning individuals who have previously engaged

in illegal activities in this section, assoclate with criminals, or serve as

contacts for criminals. Information concerning some of these individuals was

secured from the files of R. S. WIISON, U. So Attorney, and PAT SWAII, Chief

U. S. Probation Officer®

The physical descriptions and identification numbers

of persons previously furnished in survey reports will not be repeated. Like-

wise, the names of individuals previously submitted who have not changed their

status or been involved in additional criminal activities, mill not be repeated.

those persons who have changed their locations a become involved in or

suspacted of criminal activities, and those parsons whose names are presently

being submitted for the first time, are being included in this report:

LUCIUS INMAR REAVES, was, Lucien Reaves,

luke Reaves - FBI NO. 1033545

The physical description of this man has been furnished

previous It. He was comitted to the Arkansas State Penitentiary about July 15,

1945, to serve 3 years for grand larceny. He was made a trusty and put in

charge of a work detail. In this connection, he was transferred to the State

Tubercular Sanitorium at

Booneville, Arkansas, as foreman of a work detail.

He slipped away from this assignment at nights, supposedly to have illicit

When

to Greenwood, Arkansas, searching for RUBY and REAVES. He was unable to find

RUBY, but located REAVES.

The two men had a few drinks and were arrested

together at Greenwood about March 23, 1947

REAVES was returned to the

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JERRY WATKINS states that another purpose for which FRANK

COSTELLO might come to Hot Springs is to divide the take from his various

rackets.

It is pointed out that this survey covers the period of

the racing meet which was held during the month of March of this year. JERRY

WATKINS and Confidential Informant CLAY CLIFF, as well as other informants,

have advised that the following individuals were in Hot Springs during this

NATHAN LENNSTT, with alias "Nigger Nate." This individual

spends three or four months out of each year in Hot Springs, usually arriving

around the first of January and staying through the month of April. He is a

notorious gambler and apparently engages in no other activity while in Hot

Springs.

IRVING DEVINE, with alias "Nig" Devine. He is a well-known

racketeer and gambler iron Cincinnati, Ohio,

but he has never been known to

engage in anything but gambling while in Hot Springs.

EDDIE ROTEN, a gambler from Dallas, Texas.

PETE GRANT, a gambler from Memphis; Tennessee.

JESSE SHUMAKER, with alias "Shoes, " another Memphis gambler.

MILTON JAFFE, a well-known racketeer and gambler from

Pittsburgh. He was in Hot Springs for the entire racing meet and resided at

the Arlington Hotel.

CAPPY MeGORIE, a Memphis gambler.

GLENWOOD TONES, with alias Glen Townes, gambler and bookmaker

from Saint Louis.

This individual follows races all over the country and is

employed by gambling houses in resort cities as a blackjack dealer. He has the

reputation of being one of the best dealers in the country. For the past few

seasons he has been employed as a dealer at Club Belvedere in Hot Springs.

During his stay this year he was picked up for investigation by the Hot Springs

Police Department, and during his incarceration he was questioned by agents of

this office regarding his knowledge of jewelry thefts in the Miami area.. He

was released by the Hot Springs Police Department without any charge.

MURPH HAROLD, a gambler from Shreveport, Louisiana.

TONEY MARROW, a gambler and cafe owner from Oklahoma Gity.

He is alleged to be a close personal friend of HUBERT GOATES of Oklahoma City.

SHORTY BREST, a well-known gambler from San Francisco.

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