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Show WESTBROOK PEGLER Underworld Extends Its Sway JOHN EDGAR HOOVER, director of the FBI, joined Governor Warren and Senator Downey of California in their discovery of a new underworld under-world in the amusement industry. On this special phase of the new problem of criminality in the entertainment enter-tainment trades. Hoover delivered some remarks to a class of 500 of his G-men at the department of justice in Washington. "Glaring headlines announced the assassination of Bugsy Siegel, but circumstances surrounding his career in crime tell the story, better than words," said he. "Here was an individual whose life was a constant challenge to common decency. Yet he and his criminal scum were lionized and their favors sought after in so-called so-called respectable circles." Now let us consider a little night-side paper published in Hollywood called "Hollywood Nite Life. Movies. Radio. Nite clubs. Sports. Music." The masthead names Jimmy Tarantino as the "editor and publisher." Tarantino is a swipe and hustler who used to hang around Jacobs' Beach, a stretch near Madison Square Garden in New York City where the -. fighters, managers and racketeers gather. He has a cheap police record in Newark, N. J. One appropriate selection from Tarantino's essays is entitled "A Week-end at the Flamingo." This is ecstatic publicity about Bugsy's booby trap at Las Vegas, Nev., and personal admiration of "Mr. Benjamin Siegel, a handsomely groomed, tall, handsome, tanned and smiling gent," the man whom Hoover called "a challenge to human decency." |