1619-1-14 MIA Herald Sunny Isles closes Brook Club own In area
Sunny Isles Closes,
'r Brook Club Defies
Edict of New Czar
National Syndicate Gets Caught ._ .�pv.mow_
In Broward Political Tug of War M agar •pl4aal4d 'y4 .S 'sans tempepuo ay, .__ ..,.e•.
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By HENRY O.RENO pus 6gmH'H PloaeH t[Pal Q tall sueaa]an ay]'pantefua aq Spite;
Hernia star writer pas unreel ptsaada A :sapn?avi 13 Paqo06 3nasazd ell Mir Slu?IISIro
The national.gambling octopus this week got its South a dnoa8 am'add?aJ, 1s uon?PPa v; quanta ao;pm
Florida tentacle caught in a political meat chopper. And Dade D
rose saaa.i o2 os snort* —mataaooadmi mil Joy 3aoddes
County gamblin racketsPlw -alto ueeoa vvd a.tagm 'aaayds aligad ao;a.apuo a of sect age
B produced anew Little Caesar whose $ .tma14 uaa7sads ay]u?.ieA. S.duo?. aq1 ales •>,oriogay +1 •y 'anal;
word meant the difference between a green or a red light. e-euaa]u?3satsnq sly]nano saanpaa .;o talents aeoyat 'aaoa>7 tnuoa
.That's the way the local boys summed up the South Florida bad aaasaeala passatnt-a Sayy ;o of pod swis asaiaamv a
gambling picture Saturday, after Broward county spots had _ -
-mode mama aq7 of]Isla .fg e a e o d a a d se-a 6pa°?aO.,a
aatnh a bed o3 pan eagl earaipt 1 aa;]immw sat 50 uopeaiaeaap
closed their doors involuntarily for the first time in years and a !
,c adsul o]seem a paaaddila
after Dade county gambling was restricted to just one spot—. dagt a xt 'mats.ts apiapiaont alp ao;.faaao]]a pue st]issaa8itoa - •
the-ultra-exclusive Brook. iossaaa s,�g 10„sale ib1im _ _ } ••
What closed up Broward county! - ' I mit++eo map Imp 'aepasVaB FpeQ aq,i ;o;ao7}pa 8ugeuew D ■ ,mal
gambling when nothing-short of ---wwvaoed' ]�tsig;3ds a m_g3 atloH :pnellaAt -g antOav �^H•aNl
a hurricane eve did tea[before?' t a B green light tar fie twviten cannot wonder,deepht
:• ,� two bitter doses-.close or take In control beat and 1t wax re their hearts,
Polities was the answer. little Caesar. He chose to close. that g. Brook they reel1J' wanted to tell.
gambling.at the
Hot Browned county spots , - th.Gambling drdea utd that M sinceIn the same breath they tai
operated through other election ± Brook lark tad his boys et the again.receded to the. little room of the ghosb of the late Fran.
yearn without a shutdown. To • got a similar knock on Reagan,who for years 4omina[et
be sure,was the answer,hut no their
nd�Or, and they nay that There is a lot of controversy the racing wire service,and of late
one in those yearn challenged ,-trt- ,. night gambling moved from over whether the national gam- Jack Letendee big time gambler,
the political supremacy of See l the little room Into the big room Ming mob now has the Brook. both of
at the Hrook for the first time. whom deed of "lead
p[Walter Clark. • P poison••
The- boys would not 'elaborate But even Little Caesar with his One of Dade rounty': best Oa to
ff p of all this sits the man.
the point,except to say that Clark ` authorities said eerotvlay that who ought to know all about 1t—
planned to upset Assistant State's Q the chain of interests in
the otteritf Jimmy Sullivan.He passed
Attorney Dwight L.Rogers. s - Lions CI Brook leads ultimately to the tions gambling and all its 1mp71ca•
t same headquarter as Mose of I y inviting reporters to turn
Dade sonny's new little Cue• the Colonial Inn and Green.I cops and by saying he
acres in Brow c g was too
Ler—at least for the moment— ,� connq, busy with other criminal activllies
was .lack Friedlander. the un-
' IS Organized And those Broward county spots to chase down gambling—rumors.
wanted member of the Dade have long been identified as sole
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county syntenic which owns 1 Organization meeting Property of the national Mob�Shoe Stores
Clab IM and t g of the naw P p y
discredited man the racket tlir 4 soLions red bclub at Edison Center,Spon- which now is headed by Frank
j y the Allapattah club,will Costello, Frank Erickson,
be held at 7 p,m.Tuesday at the Adonis and others,although their IT1e
One o[the boys said Saturda -Herald Photo up Looms
Y San Refits restaurant,68th at.tad names g'
"You can put this 1n your pipeJACS FRIEDLANDEB Biscayne blvd. - do not appear in the
and smoke it,-if any place runs ...new"Little Caesar?" - The Allapattab club's commitkee records.
In Dyd coyrap• as of,Dow, Jack• + 1a charge of organizing t tf! It the same mob which now Pickets !n front of A.
r Frit+rlM eri etl111 as_
a piece continued at the Ro>al Palm,end 4 dub consists of Ned Hanna,. w CO°�B�iIIb in 6p po S. Blck shoe paraded
a and Lerner'a
of It.L•111 1 V 7 J man;J.Mark Stanley, chair-of the northern cities and which here Saturday,carrying signs de
when ordinary
Pressure didn't {{ M."Newt" 3 jt"and W baagone g
Which if true wouldwork,there were thteats. F Hudson. to yin off 1n buying mending a 'liveable" •
xa e.
put the ± Party--five charter members al- control by buying officials.It is,
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squatty little gambler in the Several�un s]in__dlcate.men,1n ready have been signed anon in fact, a huge corporation with Irwin Lebold,interne rep-
', swanky Brook dub. His bud• cludin ice Deuce Solnmo refessional g unlimited assets, squeezing out --""-- a of the COI, said if
' dies would like to see what he a\' a M, P and businessmen night of g the company found themselves holed ° the northwest area.Charter night little ones. did not meet onion
looks like in"soup and fish"and hotel rooms for days,before a Is being planned tor' about demand. for wage
'mils, bargain finally was reached : March 13, Ran?' McLeod, Lon Meyer ranging a to $12 increases
whereby the g and RCLard Brow., the'look Monday, a strike weekly be
Friedlander is built not unlike y ayudinte bought Adhemer A.Renuart of Miami, boys who operated the Brook _ would be
the late Mayor LaGuardia,and he the Frolics club. ± district tllputy governor of Lions, for gears, sold the Brook this aped.
will attend the organization mesa
has a big round head. He came There are those who said that i ing. year for$400,000.The boys allow However, Robert Armstrong,
1 here from New Jersey,his buddies Jack Friedlander.pent with the they gut their price, but they °tanager of Beck's Fla ler
will tell you,to escape what the deal. branch,said Miami workers would
'racket boys refer to as a concrete To the syndicate it was like - not strike because they
foot bath, taking the sour apples with the belong to the union. did not
He Hoang into prominence in big-sweet'
time Dade county gambling from Many believe that Friedlander 1s R �� A II T 0 MATT C weekly
Lerner scales are E40
he obscurity of a small-time book-wealthy,but Ltd own folks say it ! CALCULATORS y and 1n warehouses antl of-
n takes a mint to keep him going. !flees of Beck's salaries range from
g at with
Beach. This oc•They point to the fact that he had .t •
$92 to$47.
carred the advent of the no-a hard time to raise his share l
totomes Slapsi J axle club which when the syndicate decided to 1 - �tY7l1 s.t•w t>e �.
opened here in January,1941.only - " - -.-- ---- ---
t be knocked off in what has build its$230.000 colossus—the ____ „__ -_ _. — ---- -
ne down in history as one of the Club tie.
If JackFriedlander os so
tion's biggest gambling raids. wanted,, why did the boys keep
Little Caesar was part of that him? That 1s another story.Cur-
atilt which included such char•
rently and In the Immediate posh
eters as the late Leake Belted• war years, Friedlander had one
r, since executed as a mem• asset:
er of Murder, Mc., In New He hada voice and an ear—
'orb,and his aides, Moe (Dim- a very important and necessary
'plea) Molenski,since robbed oat ear—tuned to that voice.Or,pot
In a New York gambling room, it this way:Friedlander.by vir•
and Benny Sallow, who our. toe of that asset, actually ton-
'vies. trolled the switch that turned
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the light from red to green.
They set up shop in what is
ata the Frolics club and opened And that is the One asset which
in competition with the then fa-in the last week made Friedlander
moue Royal Palm in which the the new little Caesar of the Dade
Miami syndicate held forth. county gambling world.
lOne-time police Lt.C.O.Hutine He began to use it by knocking •
ied the famous raid on the Slapsie at the door of Ike Miller's Sunny
Maxie spot,-which netted $27,000 isle Casino, which incidentally
Iin cash,$13,000 in equipment and was the only one of purely local
49 arrests. control which opened in the
Burkhalter and his boys didn't county.
take that lying down. They put Miller faced the alternative of
pressure on the syndicate, which Turn To Page 4-B,Col-I