Originator: FBI
From: LR
To: HQ
Document date: 10/15/1946
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/27/201

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90032-10042

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 62-75147-25-31

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LR

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

10/15/1946

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GENERAL CRIME SURVEY SEMI-ANNUAL REPROT LITTLE

ROCK FIELD DI

MILTON JAFFE

DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

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CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

05/12/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

SURVEY

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

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

68262 Date: 09.22-2022

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Re: GENERAL CRIME SURVEY

SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT

LITTLE ROCK FIELD DIVISION.

FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS

OCTOBER 15, 1946

Background information pertaining to Fort Smith, Arkansas

was included previously in the initial crime survey reported in April, 19440

As there have been no material changes in the local conditions, except closing

Camp Chaffee which is discussed below, the preliminary information will not

be repeatedo

AO ORGANIZED GANGS

Confidential informants and sources of information are of

the opinion no organized gangs are operating at Fort 'Saith, Arkansas, or in

that vicinity.

Be INDIVIDUAL RACKETEERS AND MOBSTERS

IR-376, WESLEY PRICE, Identification Officer of the Fort

Snith Police Department,

OTTO METZGER, Chief Deputy Sheriff of Fort Snith,

furnished information concerning the following individuals who presently re-

side at or near Fort Smith or have contacts there or frequent that section.

These persons are either criminals, associate with criminals, serve as "fences!"

for stolen property or receive information concerning criminal activitiese

Information concerning some of these were secured from the files of the United

States Attorney, R. S. WILSON, or the United States Probation Officer, PAT

SWAIM, at Fort Smith, In those instances where the physical descriptions of

persons mentioned have previously been set out in survey reports this informa-

tion will not be repeated. References will be made however to the fact that

such information has previously been furnished.

FLOYD SIDNEY STEVENS, wa: Floyd Stevens.

FBI # 1061119

The physical description of this man has been furnished

previouslyo He was convicted and sentenced in 1940 on evidence secured by

the FBI concerning Theft of Governnent Property. He was committed to the

Federal Reformatory at El Reno, Oklahoma to serve his sentence. Thereafter

he returned to fort Smith where he was employed at intervals as a taxicab

driver. He left Fort Smith, proceeded probably to California, and returned

to Fort Smith where he again applied for a taxi drivers permit at the Fort

Smith Police Department informing the new Chief of Police that he had never

been arrested or convicted of a crime.

After establishing his record the

Police Department refused to recommend issuing him a drivers permit. This

man was in Fort Smith recently. He comes fron a family of thieves.

younger brother, HARDY STEVENS, is serving at Inglewood, Colorado for National

Motor Vehicle Theft Act and Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act. An Older brother,

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

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According to Captain JERRY WATKINS, the following

individuals who frequent Hot Springs during the Winter Season have not

been in Hot Springs during the period of this survey:

WILLIE HEENEY, Casino operator of Chicago;

BILI, O'DONNEL, partner of HRENEY;

JACK GRACE, of Dallas, deceased;

EDDIE ROTEN, Dallas gambler;

JOE BERNSTEIN, West Coast gambler;.

PETE GRANI, Memphis gambler;

JESSE SHUMAKER, wa: "Shoes", Memphis gambler;

MILTON JAFFE, Pittsburgh racketeer and gambler,

who is scheduled to arrive in Hot Springs within

the 'next few days;

CAPPY MCGORIE, Memphis gambler;

LYNN TOWNES, St. Louis gambler;

MURPH HAROLD, Shreveport, Louisiana, gambler;

SHORTY BREST, well-known gambler of San Francisco;

SLOVANIAN MIKE, San Francisco gambler;

HARRY PILSINGER, San Francisco;

JIMMY DOLEN, Cleveland gambler;

WILHE SIMI, Detroit, Michigan;

JACKIE KRESS, Tulsa, Oklahoma;

GULLEY OWENS, St. Louis, Missouri.

Captain WAIKINS states that the following racketeers

are presently in Hot Springs:

FRANK COSTELLO

COSTELLO, a key figure in the CAPGA case, arrived in

Little Rock by plane on October 10, 1946,

and went irmediately to Hot Springs

where he had reservations at the JACK TAR COURT HOTEL, 856 Park Avenue.

Captain WATKINS had previously advised this office that COSIELLO would arrive

on October 10. Since his arrival, COSTELLO has associated with the following

individuals who were already in Hot Springs:

JERRY CATENA and E. D'ALESSIA, two hoodlums

from Union City, New Jersey;

FRED and MORRIS KLEINMAN, brothers, of Cleveland,

Ohio. MORRIS is a key figure in the CAPGA case

in Cleveland;

PHIL KASTEL, slot machine king of New Orleans

and a key figure in the CAPCA case in New Orleans;

BENNIE FINN, diamond dealer from New York City

Informant CLAY CLIFF advised that COSTELLO called on

Mayor MCIAUGHLIN at the latter's residence about Saturday right, October 12,

1946.

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