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e pp. @ Buchalter and Shapiro associated together as young boys and after Buchalter finished school in Brooklyn he again began associating with Sha— Piro, on the lower East Side of ‘anhattan. On August 20, 1931, Buchalter married Betty Wasserman, who was born in England on October 12, 1904. Her father, Abraham Arbeiter, was born in England, while her mother, Sarah Jacobs, was born in Russia. The family emigrated from London in 1908, Both her parents were divorced and later each remarried. Betty attended local grade and high school in New York and in 1920 married Jacob Wasserman, a World War veteran, who died as the result of an appendix operation, De— cember in Oklahoma. From this marriage a son, a | wy) Ce papain Following his marriage to Betty, Buchalter adopte n 1934 and 1t is said "Lepke" has a very fond regard ~~ At the time of Buchalter's marriage to Betty, Morris Wolensky alias "Dimples" and one P. Poveromo were the witnesses. Wolensky's activities will be de- scribed in further dotail later on, Prior to her marriage Betty Buchalter was employed as a night club hostess, by Ben Marden, who managed the Palais Royale and other night clubs, in New York. She was also employed as hostess at the Kentucky Club on West 47th Street, New York City, where she operated under the name Betty Wilson. She frequents night clubs considerably, keeps late hours, plays cards and the horses to a considerable extent. On February 19, 1933, ruchalter, under the alias Louis Saffer, along with Abner Zwillman and Ben Eutlow, registered at the arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Arkansas, where they remained until arch 6, 1933. Retty Buchalter subsequently joined them. While at tne ho tel the party lived rathcr extravagantly, spending approxinatcly %1,000 a week. A trucking concern engaged in transporting cut work from clothing manufacturers to contractors conplained that their trucks were being inter- fered with and that they encountcred difficulties when trucking for certain manufacturers. A nephew of the owner of the concern reported the matter to the police and the nephew was told he would receive a telephone call. Soon the phone rang and the caller announced he was "Lepke", The nephew told him about his uncle's difficulties, whereupon 'Lepke" announced he would see who was involved and would see that there would be no reoccurrence of the diffi- culties. From that time on the trucker encountered no interference, In the Spring of 1933 both Buchalter and Shapiro invested $20, 000 in cash in the Perfection Coat Manufacturing Coe, which has -previously -been. - - referred to and thereafter-Buchalter received a drawing account of #200 a ' week for a year. On March 24, 1933, a machine gun battle between gangsters and two armed automobiles occurred at Broadway and Slst Street, in New York. The battle is said to have been carried on by rival gangs headed by Waxey Gordon on one side and Luciano and Buchalter on the other. As previously in— dicated, a rather extensive gang warfare grew out of a misunderstanding which occurred early in 1933 between various gangs headed by Waxey Gordon, Max. Grecnberg, Max Hassell and others, while Luciano, Buchalter and their hench~ men were opposing these individuals, whom they regarded as interlopers,