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Memo for the Director -l4- 5-12-36. With reference to the situation existing in Cleveland, Ohio, numerous newspaper clippings have been forwarded to the Bureau by the Clevelana office and interesting excerpts therefrom will be quoted here- in. Reference has already been made to the raid on the Harvard Club oy Prosecuting Attorney Cullitan. It is to be noted that the Harvard Club which was raided was not actually located within the confines of Cleveland but was really located in Newburg Heighuts, which is a municipal corporation adjacent to Cleveland. the Cleveland newspapers have given a great deal of oublicity to the raid and to the fact that Sheriff John \i. Sulamann refused to come to the aid oi County Prosecutor Frank T.Moullitan, when Cullitan found it impossible to, gain entrance into the Harvard Club. <A news item appearing in theACleveland Plain Dealer, dated January 11, 1936 is quoted as follows: ~ a "For nearly six hours last night operators of the CHorvard Club held County Prosecutor Frank T. Cullitan, his staff and twenty special constables at bay after they appeared at the expansive gambling resort in New- vurg Heights to raid it simultaneously with a surprise attack on the Thomas Club in Maple Heights, which yield- ed without resistance. From sunset until nearly 1 last night the prosecutor and his force of men were repulsed by threats from the operators of the Harvard Club to 'mow dow! the con- stebles with machine guns if they tried to batter in the doors. The Harvard Club was stormed only after Safety Director Kliot Ness, acting, he said, ‘as a private citizen,' took several police squads to the prosecutor's aid. Cullitan pleaded in vain for help from-the city police department and from Sulzgmann, the county's chief law en- forcement officer." Entrence having been finally gained after a six hour scige, THe prosecutor and his de uties found that all of the gambling equipment had been removed by the aid of trucks. The paper foes on to state thet after