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2 , . re Pte x st morr, BEN Kem ' a ine “engslen, ae on Mas a6 forth en ‘Teeee palatine -. : Tilct pees Sake orial oh appeared fia the tas Tribape! aw ayati, ve tloned ‘Scaskling ‘Falaees. vs. Bowes tor'¥e irene, fa Shis article ae editor af te "Les Vegas Sribuve” presented « 6 + ach ok Sj : builders io Bea! Mamingo, Bower, Anoluding MOST TEC. ! b> . ; This infra tion was corroborated Re aioe reo =! who. advised that SIEGEL began the contersation by » t "We bad our pia E ( soupleted in 1945 end Janury, 19/6"and that the builders of the Mamings Hotel : had not violated the C.P.A. freeze order of March 26, INS because * opimesion. fon all phases of the building haa begun prior to that date, - ‘stated that RIEGIL referred to the C.P.A. Commissioner's . 3B hearing at San Francisoo on August 1 ly, 1946 and stated that the hearing had cost arc, +2043 thousand Wollars. SIEGEL tended to blame the C.F.A. investigation of the hotel oo Ey 30° % ngs you in the "Las Vegas Tribune.” He said, "Now you are writing nothing about because you didn't look to see if we had the O.K. to build. You — Cat story thet we are wrong; that we have no right to buil He * to t he is actually building up the Las Vegas area by 200 striicting the ho and thet onky & very email portion | of the ballding 18 4 to be used for . geabl ing purposes. ; . 7 : oe, * * : nr, ' cm ' SIEGEL sarcastically quoted portions of the REwEP Oo article attempted to present an argument in justification for his 4is¢5ria), nocording | to informant, saying that what he said of the Flamingo Be - jj: ‘thing in Las Vegas. SIEGEL demanded tha ol] hin al is free oe b: written such an article “becauss you didn that for fy cecon out of your head." He tald t none of the building pateriels/had been purchased on the black market and. thet no money above ceiling prig,. oq been peid for -. the miterials. He seid thot no other eontractors “in th arcs had no justifioca-. tion for complaining becausc DEL var hed purchased a) of the meterisis on the legitimate open market and t if DSL WEBB cont tho materials any \ other contractor could also obtain then. a ns " 7