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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. r, SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS of Main Street and the World Korean Peace Negotiations Stalled; Senate Group Makes Crime Report BLACKMAIL —With renewed claims by Chinese Communists that Kaesong’s neutrality has been violated several times, a general feeling that peace negotiations are stalled until after the San Francisco con ference on a Japanese peace treaty, which began on the 4th, has de veloped in the nation’s capital. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway has reportedly expressed the opinion that the cease-fire talks were a blind from the start and that the Allies must now be prepared for renewal of full scale conflict. The Communists have played at the game of blackmail—a peace in Korea for abandon ment of the Japanese treaty. Now that the treaty conference is underway, and the U.S. continues in its determination to sign the treaty, there is little reason to believe a settlement will be reached in Korea. To the corttrary, it appears likely all-out war will flare up at any moment. The Communists have used the weeks of negotiations to full advan tage in their build-up of equipment and men in Korea. They are re ported to have approximately 500,000 men in the country, with 400,000 near the front. Approximately 600 tanks and great numbers of heavy guns have been brought into the war zone. The build-up of air power is well over 1,000 planes. N If the Communists have benefited from the weeks of lull, so have United Nations forces. Regiments are at full strength for the first time and have better and a greater number of weapons. Their defense posi tions are the best since the Korean conflicts began. A few of the nation’s leaders still believe there is a 50-50 chance of peace in Korea. But every day the odds are changing for the worse. f < CRIME REPORT— The senate crime investigating committee con cluded its 15-month investigation with a report that said “the tentacles of organized crime reach into virtually every community throughout the country.” K As a solution it recommended the formation of a national crime co ordinating council which would support and aid the activities of crime commissions in the home towns of the nation. Among its other recommendations: (1) That the federal security agency develop a nation-wide educational campaign on the effects of narcotics; (2) that the federal penalty for narcotics peddling be in creased; (3) that congress prohibit “interstate facilities in connection with any bet or wager, thus putting an end to layoff and comeback transactions between gamblers in different states”; and (4) that con gress tighten laws to prevent aliens from entering illegally and liDeral- ize the deportation process. One of the most startling statements of the report was the one which charged that some communities have been enslaved by organized crime and grafting public officials and that honest people have lost their voice in their own local government in many areas. OATIS CASE —Czechoslovakia’s ambassador received a stormy wel come last week when he called on the White House to present his credentials. President Truman told him bluntly the quickest way to im prove relations between the two countries would be to free imprisoned newspaperman, William N. Oatis. The ambassador said the “case is closed”, but a number of diplo matic observers believe otherwise. They believe Czechoslovakia will try a little blackmail, such as the deal the U.S. engineered with Hungary to win the release of businessman Robert A. Vogeler, also imprisoned on spy charges. Hungary was granted a number of minor trade and diplomatic con cessions for releasing Vogeler. Czechoslovakia's terms may be curbs on Radio Free Europe, a privately run American radio station at Munich which broadcasts anti-Communist propaganda behind the Iron Curtain. DEFENSE TREATIES—The United States last week signed defense treaties with the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. It was a major step in this country’s policy of securing peace and stopping the spread of communism in the Pacific. The pacts, which following the pattern of the 12-nation North At- ' lantic alliance by binding the U.S. to aid the Pacific countries in case of an attack on either, must be ratified by the senate. They are not expected to come up for action before early next year, however. FOOD PRICES—The Independent Grocers Alliance, which has some 10,000 members, predicts that food prices are likely to go down this fall. According to J. Frank Grimes, president of the group, “Big farm crops and heavy production of processed foods promise to make many food price ceilings purely academic within the next few months.” Whether propaganda or not, Grimes recommends the group’s mem bers reduce food inventories in the weeks ahead. “That way, stores can be ready to jump in and buy when prices ease—then launch big sales that will make them more friends among thrifty consumers.” FOREIGN AID- The senate last week passed its version of a for eign aid bilL The measure authorizes $7,286,250,000 to erect military and economic defenses against communism. The total was $1,213,750,000 less than asked by President Truman. Two weeks ago the house sliced $1,001,250,000 off the $8,500,000,000 requested by the administration. Now the bill goes to conference with the house and senate working out a compromise of their differences. Whatever the final figure, it will not be near the $8.5 billions asked by the administration. The bulk of the funds, approximately 80 per cent, in both the house and senate bills, will be used for military aid. Later congress must vote actual funds to carry the authorizations approved by both branches. DOUGLAS UPROAR—The suggestion last week by William O. Douglas, supreme court justice, that the U.S. recognize Red China, has caused an uproar on the American scene. Douglas, who made the suggestion in an interview in San Francisco upon his return from an expedition along the southern frontiers of both Russia and China, said recognition would give the free world a real political victory. He said recognition would capitalize on the struggle between Chinese nationalism and Russia’s drive for far eastern solidar ity. In the senate, however, Douglas’ statement brought blasts of anger. Said Senator Connally of Texas, “We have not recognized Red China. We do not intend to recognize Red China. Justice Douglas is not secre tary of state. Douglas is not President of the United States. He never will be.” (Ed. Note—While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, the Wash ington Merry-Go-Round is being written by several distinguished guest columnists, this one by Mr. Henry J. Anslinger, the Treasury Department’s Commissioner o f Narcotics and the U. S. Representa tive on the United Nations Narcotio Commission.) The Narcotic Peddler r^HE narcotic peddler not de does kidnap your children; he stroys them. In extreme distress, parents brought their 16-year-old boy to my office. The lad quivered like the leaves of the aspen. He was suf fering the dreaded withdrawal syn drome of drug addiction. He was one of those who used bravado to gain admission to the delinquent gang. “Tell me where you get heroin,” I said. “I will send you to the hospital for a cure.” We used an undercover agent to buy from the “pusher,” who led us to the wholesale peddler. Then by progressive steps we graduated to one of the' big traffickers who controlled a nation-wide syndicate We trapped him like a rat. It took men, eKSless patience, long hours of vigilant surveillance, and infi nite detailed corroboration. Now where did he get his supply? From a country which signed the Geneva Convention of 1931 to limit the man ufacture of narcotic drugs to med ical needs, and then estimated its heroin consumption at ten times its actual medical needs. We first picked up the interna tional leakage when the Los An geles county sheriff turned over to us a peddler with ten ounces o: heroin. He got it from a ship’s steward traveling between New York and Trieste. In Trieste, the Allied military authorities had in advertently repealed narcotic laws Diversion in Italy provided a ready source, with the connivance of the Mafia. Wheels within wheels. The narcotic traffic is intricately inter laced and skillfully interwoven. Crime in America By ESTES KEFAUVER United States Senator One of a Series Birth of the Crime Committee Ordinarily, Americans don’t think much about the existence and influence of organized crime. They know vaguely that it is there, and they let it go at that. For some years, however—since the days when I was a young lawyer in Tennessee—I had been troubled by the unpleasant realization that there was a tie-up between crime and politics. The idea stayed with me when I became a member of the senate in January, 1949. More and more I was concerned with the phenomenon of politico-criminal corruption. Early in 1950, an accumulation of events high-lighted the desperate need for learning the real facts about crime in America. The American Municipal associa- EVA QUITS—Eva Peron, politically the most powerful woman in the western hemisphere, who a few days before accepted the nomination for vice preident on her huband’s ticket in the November election, last week announced her decision to quit the race. The western world, which has eyed the Argentina dictatorship with a suspicious eye, had heard reports of a serious split in the Peronista party since the President and Senora Peron had told a mass meeting that they were ready to “bow to the will of the people.” Her withdrawal is expected to consolidate the party behind her hus band, Juan, and elect him to another six year term. DEFENSE—President Truman in a nation-wide broadcast from San Francisco, where he attended the opening of the Japanese peace treaty conference, warned the nation that not even an armistice in Korea must be allowed to slow the efforts to strengthen the free world against future Communist aggression. “Whether negotiations in Korea are successful or not,” he said, “we must continue to drive ahead to build defensive strength for our country and the free world. “The plain fact is that the Communists may try to resume the of fensive in Korea at any time. Moreover, they are capable of launching new attacks in Europe, in the Middle East, or elsewhere in Asia, wher ever it suits them.” SCHOOL DAYS Schools Due to Set Record Enrollment Oscar Ewing, federal security ad ministrator, estimates - that more Americans are expected to go to school this year than ever before. He figured the total at 33,121,000, compared with the 1950-51 peak of 82,703,000. Ewing said, the largest enroll ment will be at the elementary level—from 23,686,000 last year to 24,468,000 this year. Secondary school enrollments are expected to increase from 6,142,000 last year to 6,168,000. - Due to the diminishing number of war veterans and to the draft ing of college-age men, the enroll ment in colleges and universities is expected to decline from 2,500,000 last year to 2,225,000. Private com mercial schools are expected to have 175,000 students. Bureau Is Model We have 195 agents; less than 2 percent of the federal enforcement personnel. These men account for 10 per cent of the federal prison population, and their convictions average 95 per cent. Our force is about as large as that of the police department in a place the size of Tampa, Florida. The whole world regards the U. S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Narcotics as a model. The work is dangerous, nerve racking, round-the-clock, yet there is something which makes crusaders of all who -engage in it. They respond beyond the call of duty. Our enemy is artfully cunning. The seller is satisfied, and the user won’t tell. There are no complaints as in crimes like Tobberies and kidnapping. Not one witness before the Senate Crime Committee would reveal his source of supply, through fear of consequences. We work completely undercover, and must come up with the corpus delicti (evidence) at the conclusion of the investigation. We need a law which will put the peddler away longer than 1’6 months. The House of Representa tives passed such a bill. It is pend ing in the Senate. UN Seeks New Plan Harold Normandale is an addict with over 100 arrests, including one for rape, murder, and many for narcotics. He peddled narcotics to take care of his own addiction. This type creates addicts. There are thousands like him. They have no sense of moral responsibility. They would, without hesitation, shoot heroin into the radiant veins of your 15-year-old daughter, and send her into prostitution to get money for the heroin they pump into her innocent body, yet such peddlers get off with suspended sentences. The addict must be quaran tined in the city hospitals. Bal timore has the distinction of being the first city to set aside 10 beds for the disintoxication and rehabilitation of drug addicts. Limitation on manufacture of narcotic drugs and control of inter national distribution have been accomplished through eight treat ies. The United Nations is now working on a plan to limit opium production to world medical needs. Traffic Grows About 1947 we had the traffic under control. Prison wardens re ported an absence of addicted crim inals. The population of our Lex ington Narcotic Hospital had fal len to sucb an extent that a move was under way to abolish the hos pital. I urged all to stand by and to prepare. We could feel it com ing here and abroad. Warnings went unheeded. In the past two years it rolled in like an engulfing surf. tion, alarmed by the effects of in terstate crime operations on local governments, called for federal con sideration of the problem. Newspa- papers—and the free press is one of our democracy’s most potent weapons — were making startling disclosures about the power of mod ern crimesters, the white-collar suc cessors to the A1 Capones of an earlier era. I felt the time had come to dem onstrate that there is nothing the American people cannot overcome if they know the facts So I took the issue to the senate floor by in troducing a bill calling for a full- scale senate investigation of crime in interstate commerce. As chairman, 1 was extremely fortunate in having the backing of four able colleagues. These were Sen. Robert R. O’Conor, Democrat, of Maryland, to whom I turned over chairmanship of the committee last May when I felt the time had come for me to step down; Sen. Lester C. Hunt, Democrat, of Wyoming, whose great gift for common sense and ar riving at sound decisions contributed much stability to our deliberations; Sen. Alexander Wiley, Republican, of Wisconsin, and that remarkable moral battler, Sen. Charles W. To- bey. Republican, of New Hamp shire. Serving on the crime commit tee was a tremendous emotional experience for all of us. For me, it became more than merely a com mittee appointment: it became a way of life. Almost everything con ceivable happened; in San Francis co, someone stole my hat in the federal courthouse; in Los Angeles, a youngster grabbed me in the court house corridor as I walked past a telephone booth and asked me to say a word to “Mom.” * • • Our first hearing was conducted in Miami, Fla., on May 26, 1950. Between that date and the time my term as chairman ended, I traveled approximately 52,380 miles from coast to coast. Hearings were con ducted in Miami, Tampa, New Or leans, Kansas City, Cleveland, St. Louis, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, and New York. They brought in evidence of wide spread crime in other cities and states, and our investigators dili gently pursued these leads. We ques tioned witnesses from nearly evory state in the union. Through it all, I listened with mounting indignation and revulsion to the shocking story of our national disgrace. When it was over, we had established that a nationwide crime syndicate does exist in the United States, despite the protestations of a strangely assorted company of criminals, self-serving politicians, plain blind fools and others who may be honestly misguided, that there is no such combine. The Mafia and Lucky Luciano The Mafia is the shadowy inter national organization that lurks be hind much of America’s organized crime. It is a network about which no member, on fear of death, will talk. In fact, some of the witnesses whom we had good reason to be lieve could tell the Senate Cringe Committee about the Mafia, sought to shrug it off as a sort of fairy tale or legend that children hear in Sicily where the Mafia originated. The Mafia, however, is no fairy ale. It is ominously real, and it nas scarred the face of America with murder, traffic in narcotics, smuggling, extortion, white slavery, kidnaping and labor-racketeering. La Mafia even has its secret— and, of course, unwritten — code called “Omerta,” a derivation of the Italian word for "man.” The code is simple and brutal: death to those who resist or inform on the Mafia. Usually, a member of the offender’s family is killed as additional warning. Narcotics Agent Claude A. Foll- mer testified that there is “some contention” as to the identity of the New York head of the Mafia. He revealed that “it has always been my understanding that it is either Vincent Mangano or Joseph Profaci.” Mangano is said by New York police to be active in Brooklyn waterfront rackets. We had planned to question him, but our hearing time was consumed by other de velopments. His brother Philip Man gano. also active on the waterfront and publicly identified as promi nent in the Mafia, ^ras questioned by the committee in executive closed session. A month after our New York hearings, Philip Man gano was found dead in a Brook lyn swamp, shot three times in the head. Agent Follmer told how the Nar cotic Bureau in the early 1940s broke up a vicious Mafia-backed Kansas City narcotics ring. “All of these persons,” he related, “were members of the Mafia, or Black Hand, and were financed in the narcotics traffic as a group by the Mafia. This Mafia subsidiary placed the illicit drug traffic on a business like basis and hired a legal advisor,- supervisor, general manager, trav eling representative, a bookkeeper, and an extensive retail sales force. • “At St. Louis, a branch office operated under John Vitale, who was in turn under the domination of Thomas Buffa and Tony Lopiparo, chiefs of the St. Louis Mafia.” (In St. Louis, some months later, the committee summoned Gang ster Lopiparo, alias “Lopip,” to ask him about his presence with a group of Sicilian gangsters in Tia Juana, Mexico, about the time Bin- aggio and Gargotta were murdered in Kansas Qity. Lopiparo at first was a sullen, snarling witness. He crouched in the witness chair and refused even to admit he had been in Tia Jilana. When I asked him on what legal ground he could jus tify his refusal, he snapped back: “Haven’t I got a Constitution?”) “In 1942,” Follmer went on, “it was determined that one of the sources of supply for the Kansas City group was a Mafia organization in Tampa, Fla., which in turn re ceived smuggled drugs^ from Mar seilles, France, via Havana, Cuba. It was also indicated that Sebastvno Nani, one-time Brooklyn Mafia hoodlum, now established in Cali fornia, had furnished several large shipments of drugs to the Kansas City syndicate from New York.” When the committee said that Lucky Luciano, now in exile in Italy after his deportation from the United States, was operating as the inter national arbiter of crime, an as sociate of Luciano’s in Italy pro tested that once again poor Mr. Luciano was being maligned. We do not think so. There was too much solid evidence. Daring World War II, there was a lot of hocus-pocus about sup posedly valuable services that Lu ciano, then a convict, was sup posed to have furnished the mili tary authorities in connection with plans for the invasion of his native Sicily. We dug into this and ob tained a number of conflicting stor es. This is one of the points about which the committee would have questioned Governor Dewey, who commuted Luciano’s sentence, if the governor had not declined our in vitation to come to New York city to testify. One story which we heard from - Attorney Moses Palakoff was that naval intelligence had sought out Luciano’s aid and had asked Pola- coff to be the intermediajry. Pola- koff, who had represented Lifciano, said, !‘The theory behind it waa that the government had the Ger mans pretty well spotted, but they were afraid that if any sabotage might be done it would be done through Italians, who weren’t well spotted." He was referring to sabo tage along the New York water front. From a retired naval com mander, who had a hand in the af fair, we received inconclusive testi mony as to the substance and value of the information obtained from uciano. Next Week: The Wire Service: Public Enemy No. 1. Condensed from the book, “Crime In America,” by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951. Pub. by Doubleday, Inc. Dist. General Features Corp.—WNU. MORAL BREAKDOWN FBI Director Notes Athletic Scandals WASHINGTON — J. Edgar Hoo ver, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, believes that the re cent and current college athletic scandals, combined with the gangs of youthful hoodlums in large cit ies, indicate “a breakdown of the moral fiber of the country.” In a recent testimony made be fore a Senate Appropriations Com mittee, the FBI director said there “is much less respect for law and order.” He cited cases in large cities where gangs of hoodlums run wild, with little respect for law. The tendency to break awaj from “controls and discipline,” he said, also extends to the colleges, many of them much too slack in scholastic requirements. Commer cialized athletics is much at fault, he concluded. Crime in America By ESTES KEFAUVER United States Senator Two of a Series The Wire Service: Public Enemy No. 1 The nationwide crime syndicate became “big business” during prohibition. So when the “noble experiment” ended, the gangs had to look for a new money-maker. Narcotics were profitable but limited. Organized prostitution has been made difficult by the Mann (white slavery) Act. Thus, the mobs turned to illegal gam bling, which now, according to the experts, has become a 17 billion dollar annual racket. “Gambling,” said “Betting Commissioner” James J. Carroll, an unwilling and television-shy witness in the final days of our Senate Crime Committee hearings, “is a biological necessity for certain types . . . the quality that gives substance to their day dreams." No varieties of this “biological necessity” were overlooked by the mobs—slot machines, punchboards, cards, dice, roulette, wagers on Sporting events and the “numbers” racket. But the big killing came when they successfully penetrated illegal bookmaking on horse races. Thereby, a vast and corrupting new industry—the gang-dominated wire service—was born. • • • The colossus of the racing news industry today is an organization known as Continental Press service, a virtual monopoly. From Arthur M. (Mickey) Mc Bride, of Cleveland, Ohio, and his bald, seemingly disingenuous broth er-in-law, Tom Kelly, of Chicago, both of whom were unhappy wit nesses, we obtained a remarkable biography of Continental press. McBride insists he started Con tinental on a modest $20,000 bank roll purely out of sentiment and good will to provide a job for his brother-in-law, Kelly. The new wire service set up elabo rate precautions. Instead of selling “news” direct to bookies, Conti nental set up “regional distributors” to whom it sold its service. Conti nental would gather the racing news through an elaborate nationwide system and would telegraph this in formation to its distributors. Mc Bride himself admitted that Conti nental got the news out of the race tracks “by either going in and pay ing a concession price, or taking it out otherwise.” The “otherwise” in cluded use of spies with high pow ered telescopes and “wig-wag” men. The distributees, in turn, pass ed the news for a price to thousands of illegal bookies all over the coun try. Cpntinental was not supposed to know anything about that. “I,” McBride irrelevantly remarked, “never have been in a bookmaking joint in 25 years.” Finally Mickey wearily acknowledged the obvious fact that “certainly” Continental’s news “eventually got to bookmak ers.” We isolated instances where parties, supposedly operating as in dependent distributors, a c t u al 1 y kept only small salaries or percent ages and remitted thousands of dol lars—the bulk of their profits—to Continental. • • • From Mickey McBride, who ap peared at the Cleveland hearings in a suit of “race-track plaid,” hand-painted suspenders and a very sincere bow tie, we elicited the tortuous story of how Continental’s ownership shifted back and forth be tween the McBrides and the Ragen family. Mickey himself never wanted to run Continental, so in the beginning he went to an old col league, the late James M. Ragen Sr., and asked him if he would take over. In 1942 McBride said he sold out to Ragen’s son, James M. Ragen Jr. The following year Ragen Sr. took over and put pres sure on Mickey to return to the business. ' Mickey compromised by buying one-third of Continental back fqr $50,000 as an investment for his son, Eddie, then 19 years old. • • • Ragen's difficulties with the Cap- one syndicate actually went back a number of years, but in 1946 he ran head-on into trouble. The Chicago- Capone mob had been eyeing Conti nental Press; if they could seize control it not only would provide them with a Golconda of profits but would be a source of jobs for literally thousands of hoodlums. • • • The mob’s initial approach was in the form of a conciliatory out thoroughly dishonest proposition, ad vanced by three leading syndicate members, Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik, Tony (The Enforcer) Ac- cardo and Murray (The Camel) Humphreys. The mob sweetly in sisted that all it wanted to do was to cut itself in and help build up the business. As Ragen saw tl\e picture, how ever, once the mob had moved in and had gained sufficient experience to dispense with his “know-how,” he would be found some morning dead in an alley. As part of the incredible scen- CIT1ZENS AROUSED ario, according to Ragen, the Ca pone interests used Dan Serritella as their emissary. Serritella had served in the Illinois legislature as a senator for 12 years, during part of which period he also was engaged in the business of publishing a scratch sheet. He had been a friend and business associate of Ragen’s enemy. Greasy Thumb Guzik, and Serrietella told us how Guzik had advanced him $15,000 to $20,000 to start up one scratch sheet venture in which they shared the profits 50-50. At the outset, the Capone mob countered Ragen’s opposition by starting a rival wire service called Trans-American Publishing and News Service. Through its superior gang connections, Trans-American made deep inroads into Continen tal’s business. In Chicago opposi tion to Continental was sparked by the mob’s wire outlet, a mysteri ous outfit known as “R&H.” • • * A less stubborn man might have let the Capone mob take over the nationwide bookie racket. Possibly, if he had, Ragen would have b$6a alive today. But he kept on fighting until, on June 24, 1946, just as he had predicted, he was ambushed and mowed down with shotgun blasts on a Chicago street. Ragen’s murder is one of Chi cago’s many unsolved gang slay ings, just as is the more recent murder of former Police Lieutenant William Drury. Drury was shot to death the evening before he was to have talked to an investigator about appearing as a witness before the committee. • • • Then suddenly in May 1947, Mic key McBride came back into the picture. He bought Continental back from the Ragen interests. The price was $370,000 payable over a period of 10 years, and the business was to be the sole and exclusive property of young Eddie. With the Ragens gone, Trans- American folded the very next month, and peace was restored. All the bitterness apparently was for gotten and many of the old Trans- American-Capone crowd came right in with ContinentaL Mickey McBride and all the Con tinental crowd vigorously and em phatically deny the existence of any deals or connections whatsoever with the Capone-Chicago syndicate, but evidence before the committee indicates otherwise. R&H even fixed its own rate for such service at $750 a week, which, by comparison % with amounts charged other non-mob outfits for similar service, was a ridiculously low figure. But finally McBride agreed that “the seniors did all the talking” and that young Eddie, at least, “didn’t open his mouth at any time.” The committee reported to the senate: “From the preponderance of evi dence ... a conclusion is warranted that the Continental Press service is controlled not by Edward Mc Bride . . . but by the gangsters who constitute the Capone syndicate ... that Arthur McBride is deliberately making ^ gift to the Mafi-affiliated Capone mob in Chicago of about $4,000*8 week, which represents the difference in price paid by the Ca pone-controlled R&H service and the price paid by their competitors in the same city.” In my opinion, the way to cope with the problem would be a bill placing a legal straitjacket on Continental and on any other wire services that might spring up. • • • In 1942 when California feared air. attack by the Japanese, a vital telegraph circuit which served an air force field was knocked out by a plane crash. Continental Presft managed to get its wire service for the gamblers resumed in something like 15 minutes. It took the Fourth army, responsible for the defense of the entire West Coast, something like three hours. Next week: Chicago: The Heri tage of A) Capone. Condensed from the book, ”Crime In America,” by Estes Kefauver. Cpr. 1951. Pub. by Doubleday. Inc. Dist. General Features Corp.—WNU. Indictment of Newsmen Stirs People LAKE CHARLES, La.—The in dictment of five newspapermen has aroused public indignation and al most doubled the membership of the Peoples Action Group, which fights gambling and corruption. Thomas B. Shearman, publisher of the Lake Charles American Press and four assistants are charged with defaming a trio of gamblers and 16 parish (county) officials. The peoples group had at tempted to get an indictment against the parish sheriff on charges of malfeasance, but the Grand Jury returned an indictment against the newsmen instead. 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