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RE: AMERICAN YOUTH FOR DEMOCRACY FD-216 Av 4° / ” 100-6906-2444 ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE Date of Activity Agent to File Number Identity And/or Deacription Date whom where of Source of Informetion Received Furniehed Taneted .- N.Y.HIRROR STORY OF FIGHT Issue - Inetent | BETWEEN SINATRA DATED /- serial AND LEB MORTIMER. 4/13/47... oe ng SINATRA CALLED BEFORE Deanna HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES oe 7 SUBCOMMI TTEE. Is - ¢ Mirror newsclipping dated 4/13/47. Article entitled "SINATRA TO BE CALLED IN HOLLYWOOD RED INQUIRY" "Crooner Frank Sina e ris slugging of Lee Mortimer, Mirror movie editor and hightlife oritic among witnesses called when a House subcommittes on un-American activities opens its inquiry into Communist inftmenae if Hollywood next month, it became known in Washington yostordayseccesseres Meanwhile, the Mistrict Attorney's office in Los Angeles was shaping case against the crooner. Mortimer charges Sinatra sneaked up on him outside Ciro's and hit tim while he was held by some of Sinstra's friends. Mortimer credited his barbed comments on Sinatra's left-wing and underworld associations with being the cause for the Voice's attack on him. The critic said Sinatrawas angry over disapproval expressed in his colum of Sinatra's associatiog in Cuba with Charlie (Lucky) Luciano, convicted New York vice czar. It also was pointed out that when Sinatra visited Florida, he was enter tainsd yally by the Fischetti brothers of Chicago and Miami. The Fischetti brothers 8 cousins of the late Al Capono.cescess Singer Kay Kino, who was with Mortimer when he wae hit by Sinatra, said in Los Angeles that Sam Weiss, 250-pound music published, held Mortimer, District Attorneyts investigators revealed she told them that at the sound of a scuffle she turned and saw the Voice hit Mortimer as Weiss held him. After Mortimer fell Weiss continued to hold him while Sinatra struck again, she said." . tra whos ade ended in his arr Fo ar \