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Yesterday’s high, 41; low* 28PRICE 5cMenNLayout e5 HereCaptives Held Under►Bonds at Indianapolis Accused of Elaborate Bpokmaking OperationSpecial agents of the U. S. Internal Revenue Service yesterday afternoon raided a gambling establishment in the heart of Terre 1 Haute's business^ district and ar-! rested six memoers of an “international syndicate/’The men, one of whom is described as an “Internationally known gambler, were appre-■ hended at 2:23 o’clock in a third-story betting room located at 671% Wabash Avenue, one door west of the Manor House Restaurant.+ + +ALL WERE charged with failure to buy 550 federal wagering tax stamps.An hour and a half after their arrest the men were taken to Indianapolis by automobile to appear before U. S. Commissioner Edwin C. Jlaerle who issued the search warrant authorizing the raid. Each man was held under$5,000 bond.The operation was reported to have grossed more than one nyi-lion dollars a month since mid* September in betting operations. U. S. Attorney Don A;* Tabbert said the operation, under surveil-. lance for a month, was the “biggest ever known in the state of Indiana.+ + +THE RAIDERS said they found betting slips, large cards with odds on Saturday's football games and receipts indicating that long distance telephone calls charged to the establishment totaled more than $6,000 a month.Confiscated in the raid by seven special agents were eight telephones, a ticker tape machine, three walkie-talkie type radios, adding machines and other paraphernalia associated with taking bets by telephone.+ + +AT THE time of the raid the telephones were in use with “calls being made and received all over the United States and Canada.1/ Sterling M- Dietrich, district di-• rector of Internal Revenue, said wagers were being accepted on• sporting events, 'including football, baseball and boxing• matches.”The action came as a com-t plete surprise”.to local authorities,: who said they were not consulted on any phase of the operation..• Among those arrested were Leo Shaffer, 57 years, old, internationally-known as a gambler. Shaffer, commonly referred to as Bookie” was arrested in 1956 in Winnipeg, Canada, and fined $10,000 for similar gambling violations.+ + +RECORDS seized by Winnipeg police indicate that wagers received over a six week’s period totaled over a half million dollars, mostly' from United States citizens.• Others taken into custody yes-• terday include:• C. L. “Buck” Sumner, 68. In*! dianapolis, sheriff of MarionCounty from 193l to 1934. and engaged in various forms of gambling for a number of years.”Jules Horwick, 54, Chicago, 111., arrested with Shaffer by the Canadian authorities and fined : $10,000 and costs, who gave a fic-See RAIDOn Page 2, Column 3
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Terre Haute Star
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Sat, Nov 30, 1957
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