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MAINT UANUOI HOLLYWOOD. iE the same day 5 weeks ago that his son was kidnaped from a Lake Tahoe motel for a $240,000 ransom, singer Frank Sinatra, 48, U was denounced in Las Vegas, Nev., by Edward A. Olsen, chairman of that state’s Gaming Con- tra] Board. Addressing a group of newsmen who had gathered from various seclions of the nation, Olsen declared emphatically that holders of casino gambling licenses in Nevada who associate with gangsters and hood- lums, “as singer Frank Sinatra did, will wind up on the wrong side of the tables,” Olsen's reference was to Sinatra's hosting of gang- ster Momo (Sam) Salvatore Giancana this past sum- mer at Chalet No. 50 of the Cal-Neva Lodge on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, not very far from where Sinatra's son was later abducted. Sam Giancana at 53 is a small, dark, unpreposses- sing, baldish man with reptilian eyes and a large bankroll who runs crime in Chicago and Ilinois. According to police authorities he sits high in the qui eatin aM BLLES ine Waa INO! A, as is known today. The Justice: Department Hsts him as involved in gambling, shylocking, extortion, burglary and murder. Chicago authorities attribute to him and his gang leadership 24 bombings and 53 murders in their community in the past 4 years. Giancana is a close Friend of Phyllis McGuire of the singing McGuire sisters, They may even be secret- ly married. This Friendship led Giancana to Sinatra’s lodge this past summer. Phyllis was singing there, and her admirer wanted to catch the act. Late one night the Mafia Jeader got into a fistfight outside Miss McGuire’s cabin. The resultant publicity brought state agents to Cal-Neva to investigate. In Nevada the Gaming Board has developed a “Black Book” which contains the names of 1] un- desirable underworld characters, This Black Book has been distributed to casina owners such as Sinatra. They were told that if they permitted any of these 11, hoods on their premises, they risked loss of their gambling licenses. Gn September 11, 1963, Edward Olsen signed a complaint against Frank Sinatea, charging that the singer associated and spoke to Giancana without ask- ing him to leave Cal-Neva, “Frank Sinatra has for a number of years,” Olsen complained, “maintained, and continued social associ- ation with said Sam Giancana, well knowing his un- savery and notorious reputation, and has openly stated that he intends to continue such association.” Sinatya was also accused of attempting to intimi- date Olsen with “vile, intemperate, obscene and in- decent language.” A Sinatra employee, Skinny D'Amato, was accused of trving to bribe a Gaming Board worker, and Eddie King, a Sinatra confederate fram Palm Springs, Calif., was accused of delib- erately avoiding a subporna. ‘Parade * Jan. 12, 16d 336