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Vidpabiile TES ES rE Wes foe = u ¥, J 32350 on the afternoon of the 16th by airplane to Joplin, Missouri, accompanied $tat ft ds Galatas’ duty in Hot Springs to arrange for and afford protection = pre SWS pares vat Joplin, tL esours, which are elieved + to heve an important doar! ot “Envesti gation by Special Agent ‘in Charge, Re Ee “eave, conducted at Hot Springs, Arkansas, throws further light on these matters, and his REoe Fant in these eonnections is quoted as follow: -. wat Hot Springs yesterday, I contacted conf idential “taformnt | 4, who told me that Nash's woman and little girl hed gone from Hot Springs about _ (ea ae by H. B. Giaddis, whose true name is Dick Galetas and who {8 boss of a slot _ machine racket in Hot oErinees and in partnership with one Jin Clark, « -_ broken fom gembler, ani McLaughlin, the mayor of the city. veo " Informant A states that Galatas ia the offic ial representative of the’ “gangster world in Hot Springs, and gets orders from the head of a big oriminal Organization in Chicago, said to be dominated now by a man named White, ané--. vee ‘to the gangsters who come there to cool off or for other purposes " "Informant A told me thet the aviator who | was interviewed 1 by Agent. Chipman on June 14th had lied to Chipman but would tell me the truth, a0 %222 “-Z went to see this aviator = at the Municipal Airport = ~ whose naze is Joka Stover, and who runs a flying service, Stover readily talked to me and *=: 7 ptatea that he- bad lied to Chipman because he was afraid of getting mixed | ” ap. in it and because he did not sli ty Mno Chipman waee sath of the matter was as follom: we * quickly and wented to know ff he, Stover, could take them, giving the ines formation that the wmen was in Hot Springs to get a divorce ani wanted’ we. Blip oat of tom for « while. Bis wife, enother woman anf e liftle girl, in a car. "Stover had gotten his Ryan Monoplane ready for travel, : Pas icoctes that Mrs, Hash, not having traveled by plane before, | was sonevin § ; apprehensive and there was discussion ef Stover's wife going long. anaes