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Memo. for the Director ~ & §~12~36 operators of the Harvard Club at Cleveland, Ohio, investigations by the Bureau have never shown exactly and in detail the manner in which this acquaintance was devel gped. Investigation has disclosed, however, as you Imow, that Charles J. Fitsgerald was a member of the Karpis-Barker gang. We have learned that during the early summer of 1934, Fitzgerald visited with Cassius McDonald at Detrait, Michigan. Fitsegerald has admitted that he has known MeDonald since 1924, when he first entered illicit traffie in liquor. It is safe, therefore, to assume that members of the Karpls~ Barker gang became acquainted with Cassius McDonald through Fitegerald, Investigation has show. that McDonald was intimately associated with Hebebrand and Patton. The investigation in Cuba and Miami, Florida, dis closed that McDonald corresponded with Hebebrand and Patton, therefore, in all probability, members of ths Karpis-Barker gang became acquainted with Hebebrand and Patton and the Harvard Club through Cassius NeDonald. You baye been advised that Jobi'Brock, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was apprehended by ‘Post Office Inspectors in connection with theCerrettsville | pymail robbery which occurred on Novesber 7, 1955. Brock has furnished a great deal of information to Fost 0ffice Inspectors, much of which Agents have been able to obtain from such Inspectors. John Brock has advised that James "Shimmy" Patton and Arthur Hebebrand formerly financed various Jobs for Karpis and that at such times as Karpis visited Cleveland he contacted these two individuals. He further stated that Karpis arranges his Toledo contacts through an ex-prize fighter who is employed at the Harvard Club, the name of this individual being "Smoky ® Sharkey Gordon, Indicative of the close friendship existing between Fred Barker and Hebebrand and Patton is the fact that on Novewber 28, 1934, while Fred Barker was. living at Lake Weir, Florida, he wired a dozen roses from Ocala, Florida to "Art".Heavebrandt and James*Paxon, c/o of the Harvard Gluh, 539 Harvard Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. In wiring these flowers, Barker used the name of "I. C. Blackburn". It is interesting to note that when Arthur Hebebrand was later interviewed, he stated he recalled receiving flowerg from Ocala, Florida from a party named "Blackburn" but thet he had no ides as to the identity of the sender. Karpis-Barker gang and Hebebrand and Patton, has advised that bre Alvin Karpis on one occasion informed him that he, Karpis, had been offered & proposition by certain gamblers in Cleveland whereby he, Karpis, sould purchase an interest in an International Slot Machine enterprise for $6,000; that this syndicate had been negotiating with several large gambling syndicates in Europe for the purpose of establishing slot machines; that Referring further to the close tion, aT members of the