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Medford Tribune Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1950 Pages 1-6 Old Capone Gang, Frank Costello Run Nationwide Rackets, Crime Parley Told Washington. Feb. 18 U.R) The mayor of New Orleans said today that the old Capone gang and Frank Costello of New York controlled nation-wide gambling rackets with an annual take that may total $10 billion. Mayor De Lesseps S. Morrison, spokesman for the American Mu nicipal association, told Attorney General J. Howard McGrath's crime conference the Capone and Costello organizations are the two major "criminal syndicates" operating in America. In a prepared speech which included an 11-point program recommended by the association for a fedoral-state-local attack on organized crime Morrison said: Key To Business 1. The Continental Press serv ice is the key to a betting busi ness with an annual take of $3 billion to $8 billion. 2. A slot machine syndicate "controlled by Frank Costello" has an annual take of $1 billion to $2 billion, plus an unknown income from allied activities. "There is an abundant fund of facts which point to control of this (Continental) wire service by the old Capone gang," Morrison said. "We have good reasons to believe that the slot machine syndicate is controlled by Frank Costello. "The shy and retiring czar of the slot machine racket always understates his interest in rack ets and government in his pub lic denials of the facts about his potency and influence." 300 Cities Served He said that more than 300 cities are served by Continent al's 16,000 miles of leased wire. Morrison said that Costello told a federal grand jury some years ago that he moved his New York slot machine opera' tlons to New Orleans in 1836. "He said that he sent down 'Dandy' Phil Kastel, ex-convict and one-time associate of Arnold Rothstein, to incorporate and run the business," Morrison said. 'To day he (Kastel) lives and oper ates in Jefferson parish above New Orleans outside our juris diction." In recent years, Morrison said, Kastel followed other "recog nized techniques" of the Costello syndicate by entering allied fields. He said Kastel built the luxurious Beverly club gam- Springfield Merchant Seeks Congress Seat Eugene, Feb. 16 Walter Swanson. a merchant in the Glenwood district of Springfield, said this week that he will file for the democratic nomination for congressional representative fr6m the fourth district. He is first to announce his intention of seeking the democratic nom ination. The post is that now held by Harris Ellsworth, Roseburg re publican. Swanson is a graduate of Ore gon State college and the Uni versity of Oregon. He is operator of a farm and home store, and is 30 years of age. In making his announcement, he said he has "no fear of the republican whis per and smear campaign of bogey-man tales of our entering into a socialistic state. "If we enter into a socialis tic state," he said, "the repub licans will drive us to it." DISTINCTIVE Draw Draperies WE MAKE THEM , WE HANG THEM S '' Wakefield Drapery 2nd Floor Medford Furniture, 6th & Bartlett, Ph. 2-6010 z: bling house in Jefferson parish, and financed bar and tavern op erators at interest rates lower than those of banks with the un derstanding such places "must install their machines. Citiienahip Questioned He said the charter of the club registered as its agents, Kastel and Carlos Marcello, "local ex convict and syndicate man." He questioned Costello's continued enjoyment of naturalized citi zenship and charged the New Yorker with perjury when swearing to his final papers in 1926 that he had not violated any law. ". . . It is our understanding that he was at that time the na tion's top rum-ruunner," Mor rison said. The mayor said that Dudley Geigerman, Costello's brother-in-law, was manager of the slot machine company as late as 1947. 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The army indicated the old army isn't dead yet. It said it still needs money for 800 hom ing pigeons and new funds to buy 97 mules and 23 dogs. Jersey Club Meet Held At Ashland The Rogue River Jersey Cattle club held its regular monthly potluck dinner and business meeting at the E. B. Payer home in Ashland, February 12. A talk on "Importance of advertising milk products and stressing their nutritive value was given Dy Earl Jossy and a review of the annual state meeting of the Jer sey Cattle club was heard. Frank Schutzwhol was nom inated by the local club as a candidate for the position of dis trict director to assist the state fieldman for the Oregon Jersey Cattle club. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schutzwhol. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Sparling, Bud Miller. Merrill Miller, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Mc Colm and daughter, Betty, Mr and Mrs. John Reinhart and Bill Sappington of Josephine county Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Mongold and Sally and Larry, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Moore and sou, Rex, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jossy, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Van Deusen, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Lydiard, and Richard Wyant of Jackson county. Salem. Ore.. Feb. 16 (U.R) Robert G. Davis of Roseburg filed his candidacy Tuesday for district attorney of Douglas county. western Oregon, the commission noted. The re-opening of many large construction jobs also shared responsibility for the first upward swing in eniDlov- ment since the holidays. Initial claims, denoting lay offs, dropped from 11,880 to ,ooo me iirsi ween oi reoruary. And several large offices in cluding Astoria, Coos Bay, Eu gene and Grants Pass reported fewer requests for weekly com pensation. Nearly every office on the western side of the Cascades predicted quick return of sea sonal operations, mainly because of a good demand for lumber and many postponed building jobs. In Eugene, center of the doug last fir industry, claims dropped from 600 In one week, with sev eral mills and logging outfits resuming activities. Three big lumber and plywood mills re opened In the Lebanon area. De spite a shortage of logs, now being supplied on a day-by-day basis where possible, Grants Pass reported 250 men back at work and more being called. Activity On Coast Coastal offices were unani mous in reporting increased ac tivity even with bad roads and lingering snow that handicapped loggers in the foothills. In the Toledo area several mills and logging outfits were working again. Construction men were expected to start on several new schools soon. Nearly 400 fewer claims came from Coos Bay, where some large employers were re-hiring workers. A similar report was issued at Astoria. 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