CONTENTS Testimony of Barrett, Robert J., Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Department; Page 885 762, 805, 842, 850 Beach, Beverly C., inspector, Metropolitan Police Department, accom- Boccina, John Louis_ 661 Bullock, Albert I., inspector, Metropolitan Police Department. 697, 708, 741 679 Carper, Hialmar Hastings, lieutenant, Metropolitan Police Depart- Dixon, Miller Adrian, detective sergeant, Metropolitan Police Depart- 661 Furr, Floyd B., detective sergeant, Metropolitan Police Department 599 551, 567 Kelly, Thomas Francis, Chicago, Ill.; accompanied by William H. 668 Lutz, Clarence H., inspector, Metropolitan Police Department Leach, Nellie, Washington, D. C. Matusky, Leonard J., Baltimore, Md Olf, Murray; accompanied by William H. Collins, counsel Plisco, Abe, Washington, D. C.; accompanied by Charles Ford, 610 564 661 409 655, 664 655 Steiker, Jerome J., accountant on the staff of the subcommittee. Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by Bauman, Arnold, chief counsel, Subcommittee Investigating Crime 797 435 Letter addressed to Robert J. Barrett from Senator Neely, 795 Section 33-417 of the District of Columbia Code 461 Furr, Lloyd B., detective sergeant, Metropolitan Police Department, 600 Neely, Hon. Matthew M., a United States Senator from the State of Letter from George Morris Fay, attorney, Washington, D. C., to 607 Letter from Hon. John Russell Young, Commissioner, District of 608 Letter from television viewer to Senator Neely, March 25, 1952 INVESTIGATION OF CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FEBRUARY 6,1952 UNITED STATES SENATE, ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, INVESTIGATING CRIME AND LAW ENFORCEMENT, EXECUTIVE SESSION Washington, D. C. The subcommittee convened at 2 p. m. (pursuant to S. Res. 136, agreed to September 13, 1951, and S. Res. 267, agreed to January 30, 1952, 82d Cong.), in room P-38, United States Capitol, Senator Matthew M. Neely (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Neely, Pastore, Butler (Maryland), and Welker. Also present: Arnold Bauman, chief counsel to the subcommittee; Harold Solomon, associate counsel; Murray York, investigator for the subcommittee; and Gerhard P. Van Arkel, chief counsel, full committee. The CHAIRMAN. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. MATUSKY. I do. TESTIMONY OF LEONARD J. MATUSKY, BALTIMORE, MD. Mr. BAUMAN. What is your name, please? Mr. MATUSKY. Leonard J. Matusky. Mr. BAUMAN. Where do you live? Mr. MATUSKY. Baltimore; 1553 Sheffield Road, Baltimore, Md. Mr. MATUSKY. Why, I was president of the World-Wide News. Mr. BAUMAN. That is the World-Wide News & Music Service, Inc.? Mr. MATUSKY. That is right. Mr. BAUMAN. What was the business of the World-Wide News & Music Service? Mr. MATUSKY. Why, a general sports service, wired music, racing, baseball-in fact, everything in the line of sports. Mr. BAUMAN. As a matter of fact, you were in the business of furnishing racing results? Mr. MATUSKY. That is right. Mr. BAUMAN. And other sporting results, together with music, to subscribers? Mr. MATUSKY. That is right. Mr. BAUMAN. You have testified as to how that business is operated in detail before the Kefauver committee; is that right? Mr. MATUSKY. That is right. Mr. BAUMAN. Therefore, I am not going over that phase of things again. Now, when did you first become affiliated with World-Wide News & Music Service? Mr. MATUSKY. Why, approximately-sometime in 1938. Mr. BAUMAN. And did you form that company yourself? Mr. MATUSKY. Yes, I did. Mr. BAUMAN. Who were the stockholders at the time you sold the company? Mr. MATUSKY. At the time I sold the company, the stockholders were myself and Roscoe Odle. Mr. BAUMAN. When did Odle become a stockholder? Mr. MATUSKY. Sometime in approximately 1947, early part of 1947, I would say. Mr. BAUMAN. When did you sell the company? Mr. MATUSKY. You mean outright? Mr. BAUMAN. Yes. Mr. MATUSKY. Well, the papers were drawn up August 2, 1948. Mr. BAUMAN. Will you tell the committee the circumstances surrounding the sale of that company? Mr. MATUSKY. Why, I got a call from two gentlemen. The fellows' names were Sanford Niles and Mr. John Gordon, who is now dead, from the Emerson Hotel-that was sometime in July of 1948, I would say, the early part of 1948. He asked me if I would come up and see him, which I did, and they asked me in turn whether-or, told me that Kelly was interested, he wanted to know if I would be interested in making a deal with Kelly. Mr. BAUMAN. Did you know who Kelly was? Mr. MATUSKY. Yes; I knew Kelly. Kelly was the former manager in Baltimore. Senator WELKER. City manager? Mr. MATUSKY. City manager of the Baltimore office? Mr. BAUMAN. At the time these men told you Kelly was interested in acquiring the company, Kelly was no longer city manager of Baltimore? Mr. MATUSKY. No. He had been in Chicago, I would say, 4 or 5 years or longer. Senator WELKER. May I clear up that point? You mean he was city manager of your enterprise in Baltimore? Mr. MATUSKY. No; at that time it was known as the Severn News Co. Senator WELKER. I want to know that, because when you say manager of the city of Baltimore, that was a little confusing. Mr. BAUMAN. Earlier in your testimony you referred to Thomas Kelly as being a city manager of Baltimore. Would you explain for the record, please, just what you meant by that! Mr. MATUSKY. Why, he was the manager of Severn News. Mr. BAUMAN. S-e-v-e-r-n News? Mr. MATUSKY. That is what we called them. |