r  7,v


e  -q? 
'- e
Itll. Dub. 90. 1950 6 Governor Ierron Saying he wee acting on hie Ola
inwetigetor of Dede Co. reekete indicated tode he any fire m: '
S  ;of Dede 00. after all end epolo 513 to the arise
can eel reetnr reiuni for not knowing ohat wee heppenie here.
the governor came here on u surpriee visit to confer with off ciele
of the cdhmieeion for more then b cndihe low down on pageatzed
snorting onion already nee publie  ledge. IIIUOQ eeid; however.
he eee surprieed thet ouch e eituctie existed. Liter be acted -
Commieelon official. if the some eituetion bed eaieted during other
adminiatretione. It hed to none extent. they eeid but thet ie no
exeuee for it existing ncl. it too pointe during the convereetion Iblnh
In: slightly tenee ct tinee, Vernon e oloeized for hie failure. do be
fully informed the eeid he hot guet too buoy to know Ihet had
been going on/Qn the etete. Co official! eeid they hcd been
trying to get hie ettention for no y two yeere. that they had written,
they had telegraphed end they had telephonedrepeetedly to Frank wright.
the Governor'e eeeietent but nothing hepgened. litren eeVed Connieeion
officiale if they would recoonend e one" Or to Sheriff Bulliven
"if I ehould zen-uneztx reach a deoiei he ehould be euependcd '
end they refused flatly. 3e eeked the. lesion insane-Ilene Director,
Dnniol Sullivan if he would eeeet the eppoinunent and Sullivan refueed n
flatly. They told the governor naming of the gift wee hde
reeponeibility. end they wouldjeoept no pert of t. le come down here
to put on on the spot end we area at going to be put. eeid one of the I
directore afterward. The crime eeion recently eeked Inrren to
remove sheriff Sullivan for penn wide open bling here and the
infiltration of northern nobetere. erren replie that the people had
elected their eheriff union and he wee not gain to overrule the VO=OPI-
The governor did not chergea that the eher failed to enforce
the lee. Conniealon oft oiele told Werren todey they considered that
"a slap in the face. The goverror eeid he didn't neen it as each and
apologized. e. V. Griffin. former warren supporter and the governor's
chief investigator who Ill wee fired lnet week bed confirmed the I
oomnieeion'e findinge end naked President Truman to do eonething ebout H
this modern Babylon einee lerren had refused to not. The Govennor
flew here this morning from Tlllehnenee with Royal coupton hie pree-
eecretnry and eeked the drine commiosion for en eppcintnent. It was ,
mode for thereo o'clock in the commission's small office in the 4
Bieoe e building end the governor ehoperded e etete highway
patro man found himself Jenned in emcng repc ere.. otogrephera.
two court reportere. with etenotype mach!:ee.oolliei en officials end
oteervere including aeeietent etete attorney generel Jim Ton'y.
The Governsr looked tent end e tit worn no he entered the room end
it lee noticed that hie bend shook es he poured hineelf a gleee of
water after the prone photogrephere took a series of victutue. The
governor opened the meeting by announcing that he eleeye hed been
oppoeed to illegal gambling and etill opposed it. no explained he hxd ,
done all he could to ohtein the peeeege of en anti-bookie bill which
prohibite the use of racing information for genhling purpoeee outside
of legal tracks and told eheriffe to euppreee bookies. had given
order: to beverage inepectore to eieae clot nedhlnte ehen they were ;
found operating in illegal pieces and declared publicly he would not H
elloe clot machinoe,to oporlto anywhere. Be ole; ruoelled he had
vetoed a hill to permit operation of one-ball pin alohinee which
might have been on entering wedge for slate. Then he took up the
defonae of Sheriff Sullivan. Ho aeid etetletioe showed thet there
had been a decreeoe in many typea of crime in nude County under
Sullivan. it another time he rend e story fro-:the 8t. Peterebnrg

 

Timon. e peper that hen In ported him in the ; and which he celled

one of the nan: enlightene pepere in the ete haunting Deniel -
Sullivan ee eeign fenhlin had deoreeeed. w{:,¢gu111ven que:_.-.  'h
. u to expleic ,e t lee up to e uunioipll L4, -. .~.. I. w w -

- by. 5 a 4.. we}, v v -. n n r r a t t I.

.0
3

1!

.m
w.

m.
m