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TA 62-2837 =“ Soday, the onstruction of the Flamingo will increase the --. ~“ belligerent feeling of the populace toward the gambling ¢lement , "which has been engendered during the past few years. The man who eammot find a few feet of soil pipe for his little home and who witnesses the mterial he so sorely needs go into the construction of gambling clubs is not likely to be in favor of the continuance of the present laws. He feels that the gamblers are using their easy money to deprice him of a place to live. "The publio will tolerate gambling only as long as gaubling will subjugate itself to the welfare of the people of the commmity. We doubt that the men who seem to be in the saddle and control the gambling interests have have enough sense to see ‘the Banter iting on the _ wall. <- Richard King." _— tom, oO Aocompanying the article were photographs of ‘ , pile of sewer “end soil pipe on the premises of the Flamingo Hotel, a photograph of the par- tially finished hotel, and a photograph of new homes in the Biltmore traot _of Las Vegas, with the accompanying comment that more homes like those ap- pearing in the photograph are needed rather than elaborate gambling palaces. advised Special 1 f the Los Angeles Field Division on July 30, 1946, t he received some information from a highly confidential source which was given to him in confidence and which he would make available to agents with the understanding that the agents would treat it in the manner in which it was being given. He mentioned that he had received this information as gossip in that he personally had no knowledge of the facts involved, nor sould he vroush for the sourse of hie information, bi but was making the information availab ¥ - In connection with the Flamingo Hotel, which SIEGEL are building in las Vegas, informant stated that construction on a d not gotten any further than "a few atakes being driven in the ground" when the freeze order regulating all conm- mercial building under CPA came into effect. When this order cane ‘through, the Flamingo Hotel had not progressed far e to Sena PaT f a ta continuance, #0 certain o e of Nevada, and shortly oreafter construstian was I \ == —— ST Tae we SS eee i authorized under CPA regulations permitting the construction of the Flamingo. The key person in thie transaction is allegedly a CPA man in Reno, Nevada, 7 - - 90 -