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—<as Pegler— oy, Sees It | More About Frankie | And Some of His Pals By WESTBROOK PEGLER Copyright, 1947, Eing Features Syndicate, inc. J. KAHN, JR., ONE OF the rapturous writers in the e §6coneert of propaganda to rehabilitate Frank Sinatra's coy artificial reputation, may, in this instance, be ab Tmlerior re- OT SUPEAWSOR porter, for all his seeming of thoroughness and authority. rae | Kahn professes to have made a competent study of his sub- “i aG ur ject, but nowhere in his eulogies does te Buy he report that Frank Sinatra was ar- rested on Nov. 6, 1938, charged with a sexnal offense, He does tell us that Sinatra’s iv: eome is somewhat more or less than inilion dollars a year, out of which might be noted, he could distribute, say, $500,000 as a deductible business ex- “pense to stimulate favorable pubiicity and to suppress unfavorable informa- and suppre arable informa tion, Kahn writes also that some of Sinatra’s publie earnestly believe that his birthday is second in importance to only that of Jesus Christ, Sinatra’s publicity has been a phe- nomenon of propaganda, Almost all WESTBROOK PEGLER of it since his involvement in two un- pleasant episodes last Winter hag been complimentary. And most of it has been absolutely gratuitous, unjustified by any City Desk news standard. ” Doubtless, much of it has been free propaganda in the nature of public mash-notes from ideologians. of the Far Left ho have thus repaid Sinatra for his pretentious ‘‘services’’ i) some of their political projects. dit R. KAHN DID HIS PRAISEFUL ESSAYS origmally for the New Yorker, but he got a lot of other mileage | out of his stories. Much of the same material has later ap-'_ peared in book form, in @ digest publication and in one of - the weekly picture-books, _ Nevertheless, this noted anthority on Sinatra failed to ' EE tell us that on Nov. 28, 1938, in the Criminal Judicial District - CO ose FROM TS Court of Bergen County, N. J., Frank Sinatra, of Hoboken, 1, was charged with seducing, on 4 promise to marry, a young SEP woman ‘‘of good repute for chastity, whereby she became © pregnant,”’ j Sinatra was released on $1,500 bail provided by the Peer- Jess Casualiy Co., of Hackensack, and the ecoinplaint was ROUTER FW withdrawn on Dee. 7. Two weeks later Sinatra was arrested 0... --- ---- > : again, charged this time, with adultery with the same girl, AR PRL EY wy py IStON now described as a married woman, The case was referred to the grand jury, which found no bill, It was then dismissed. Sinatra was about 22 years old at the time. This age conflicts with the accounts of his propagandists, but it is con- . sistent with the age which he stated on the official passenger list of the Pan-American Airways last Feb. 11, when he flew from Miami te Havana with the Fischetti brothers, Joe and Rocco, of Chicago, Sinatra was not merely a passenger on the same plane with the Faschettis. He was with them. The Fischettis are related to the Capones and have many interests in common with the Capone gang. On this passenger- list, Sinatra’ BS age is given as 20. He waa not famans an lth T4328 tha att af hlaaly it Ww eaithy lii 4. MGs 50 THe (BULRESUOT oi WHACK ALLL 18 not aS yey-