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ae rye Ie ee he ee BORD 90 gyerger 9 NOV 18 1948 “If ‘Whiting “tele, he right ~ “add “Yittle™'to the case that’s. being built, Anderson said. - Siegel, who tangled with the law frequently, was indicted in 1942. as the West Coast head of “Murder, ‘4"but wasn't convicted. cal ARRESTED BY FBI. i Comat panel. if that Tafle, Ake ssid he would file another motion asking that various counts tn the indictment be stricken on the grounds that no threatening language, ag. de- B fined by law, 1 was contained in the -J.. Stewart Ake! attorney. forfalleged extortion letters, =: -. Mey iting, said that Whiting hadn't} ‘Siegel, principal owner of the = disclosed the name of the gunman,!/$6,000,000 Flamingo Club, Las 2m S 5. = oa if he krtows it, but that Whiting Vegas, was riddled with 30-30 car- insists’ he will tell ‘all details of pine bullets ashe sat on a sofa the slaying if he is tried for extor- in the front room of a Beverly ~ Ake said he'll file a motion in} Federal District Court at: Cleve- tand next week to quash a nine- . ° nt extortion indictmént against lat the 810 N. Linden Dt. home,| £ iting. narrowly escaped being hit, one e [a7 re) a ‘SHOOTING DESCRIBED Allen“Smiley, sitting beside Whiting was arrested at his bullet going through « sleeve. ome in Canton June 18 by FBI|Smifey recently-has been involved, agents from Cleveland and has{jn Federal action seeking to de-| been charged with extortion Of/port him. $53,000 from Joseph J..Cohen of[" Charles HiM, brother of the red- san Francisco, assistant manager and vice president of the Califor- mia Jockey Club. Cohen is, promi- nent in West Coast racing ‘circles. Cohen claims the extortion started in 1938 when he was kid- Haped by ‘three men who ‘threat- gned him with death if ‘he didn’t haired, thrice-wed Miss Hiii, and Jerrl Mason, Miss Hill's secretary, ; also were in the home. Miss: Hill was in Europe . Late in October, Chief “Ander. son returned from a trip to New York City, and déclared an “in- former” had given him the story of the slaying. . Stegei, the chief said, was “cited on orders frém. an underworld; syndicate, when he threatened spill information about their - e FBI he gave the men $5000 ut ‘that his life constantly was. eatened by letter and phone. r accused Whiting when -he said 4a di €E could"noi-siand &. any longee 2s unless the group put mofe |_ 64 G37 | Fe | 7#5 groney into the Nevada club, degrycpERAL mas c cn TGATI - Though the chief on Oct. U.S. DEF ARIMENT CF SSTICE ury, there have been 1 no ai rts | NOV 1 9 1948 “LOS ANGELES Fito OFFICE