t up, take it to Stone's supply point, load the car and redeliver it to he garage where it would be driven away by the customer.

Prior to the enactment of the Public Law 95 the Federal Governnent had no jurisdiction over transporting obscene material by private conveyance across State lines and Stone was free to engage in his business without any interference from Federal enforcement agencies. Stone refused to answer any questions during the subcommittee hearing, using the fifth amendment to the Constitution for his protection.

Lieutenant Ignatius Sheehan of the Chicago Police Department in his testimony before the subcommittee did tie Stone in with a Chicago dealer Frankie Lano alias Frank Mustari who was arrested in Chicago in 1954 with over $15,000 worth of pornography in his possession. Lano would drive to New York 4 times a month and purchase $2,000 worth of pornography from Stone. He would drive his automobile to Chicago and there sell the material at retail for approximately $5,000 resulting in profits of over $12,000 per month and sales of over $20,000 per month. This one dealer would thus account for the distribution of some $240,000 in pornographic material in the Chicago area each year.

Just prior to this report going to the printer, Stone was arrested in New York. His automobile contained 24,000 indecent comic books and 1,000 decks of cards in addition to 120 reels of motion picture film. The entire booty was valued at $11,000.

A map is shown that graphically illustrates the extent of Al Stone's operations throughout the United States."

Simon Simring

Simon Simring of Miami, Fla., was the principal distributor of pornography in the southeastern section of the United States.

As a result of the questionnaires sent out by the subcommittee to chiefs of police regarding pornography we were informed by Police Chief T. E. Salley of Orangeburg, S. C., that a pornographer named Simon Simring had been arrested there on April 30, 1955.

Chief Salley forwarded to the staff of the subcommittee samples of the material that had been confiscated from Simring upon his arrest. The inventory of this seizure revealed 134 reels of 8 mm. and 16 mm. motion picture film, 1,276 folders of pornographic photographs with 12 photographs per folder, 512 folders of the same type photographs with 20 photographs per folder, 663 stereo slides, 1,900 color slides, 391 pornographic books, 567 latex "gadgets" and assorted other material all with a total value at retail of approximately $35,000.

In Simring's possession also was a road map of the Southeastern States with 171 cities marked with a circle, an address book containing 243 names of customers and a card index file containing 1,194 names in 21 States and Washington, D. C. Among the names in Simring's possession appeared such known dealers in pornography as Al Stone, Elmo "Red" Florence, Louis Shomer, Ike Dorfman and Stanley Jablonski. The material which Simring had in his possession was compared with material seized from others in every part of the United States and much of it was identical.

Simring has been arrested for dealing in obscene literature in Saint Petersburg, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., Johnson City, Tenn., and Knoxville, Tenn., in addition to his arrest in Orangeburg.

Rubin, Abraham, see testimony, op. cit., pp. 149, 243, 260.

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The subcommittee staff endeavored to place Simring under subpena but he successfully evaded the United States Marshall.

A copy of a map showing the contacts of Simring in the Southeast is shown together with a photograph of the seizure of materials in Orangeburg, S. C.

Elmo "Red" Florence

Elmo "Red" Florence operated the ABC Film Co., post office box 11042, Houston 16, Tex., and is known to have customers for pornographic film and literature in 35 States, Canada and Mexico.

Through information reaching the subcommittee and forwarded to Sheriff C. V. "Buster" Kern at Houston, Tex., the ABC Film Co. was raided by officers of the sheriff's department. Confiscated at the time of this raid was a large quantity of photographic equipment including copying machines, cameras, projectors, splicers, etcetera, and more than 10,000 obscene photographs, 76 reels of obscene film, 119 pornographic books together with assorted other items of pornographic

material.

Through correspondence and other data seized at the time of this raid the subcommittee established Florence's connection with two other known_dealers in pornography that he supplied. These two dealers were Lewis C. Allen, 1710 S. Tyler Street, Dallas, Tex., and Wyman H. Parr, 317 East Seventh Street, Dallas, Tex. Allen and Parr were operating the Cliff Camera Co., 409 North Bishop, Dallas, Tex., as a cover for their distribution of pornographic material.

Parr had a record of dealing in obscene literature dating back to 1952 when he was arrested in Atlanta, Ga., and Allen had a record also dating to 1952 when he was arrested in Atlanta for exhibiting obscene films and having 100 reels of film in his possession. He was also arrested in 1955 in both Memphis, Tenn., and Dallas, Tex., for possession of obscene film and material.

A letter from Florence to Parr is shown to give an indication of the nature of the business that Florence transacted with Parr and Allen. The size of business done by Florence through Parr and Allen is indicated from the statement of Capt. W. P. Huston, vice squad, Memphis Police Department who was responsible for the arrest of Allen in Memphis on January 11, 1955.

At the time of the arrest of Mr. Allen we confiscated names of local citizens who he stated that he came to Memphis for the purpose of contacting each of them to sell or to rent obscene motion picture films. However, Mr. Allen was arrested before he had the opportunity to visit these citizens.

At the time Mr. Allen was interrogated information was developed that all of the above subjects (names on list) had been dealing in obscene motion picture films with another salesman out of Texas whose name Mr. Allen did not reveal. Mr. Allen advised that the majority of the obscene motion picture films that he had in his possession were filmed in Mexico, Chicago, and North Carolina. Mr. Allen also advised that the sales from pornographic films is a yearly multimillion dollar business.

Florence in addition to selling pornographic film through various outlets engaged in a mail-order film rental business. The following schedule of film rentals was taken in the arrest of Florence.