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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Martin Underwood ordered investigations and arrests for gambling operations involving football pools in Anchorage and Fairbanks over the November 25, 1961 weekend, aiming to identify ringleaders and possible ties to outside states.
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JUNEAU (AP) - Public Safety Commissioner Martin Underwood said today he personally gave the orders which resulted in a series of gambling arrests in the Anchorage and Fairbanks areas during the Nov. 25 weekend
Most of the arrests were made in connection with the operation of football pools. City Police and State Police cooperated in the arrests, which were made on the last big weekend of college football for 1961.
Underwood's aid instructions went to District State Police commanders at Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks to investigate operation of the football pools and to make the necessary arrests.
"The investigation had a two-fold purpose." Underwood said.
"First. we wanted to find out who the ringleaders were.
"Secondly, we wanted to find out if there was a tie-in between Anchorage and Fairbanks or between Alaska and the states."
Underwood said there were definite indications of a tie-in between Alaska and the south 48. "but nothing we could testify to."
He explained that odds used in the football pools in Anchorage and Fairbanks were obtained from some source in the south 48.
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Anchorage And Fairbanks, Alaska
Event Date
Nov. 25 Weekend, 1961
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series of arrests made in connection with football pool operations; indications of ties to outside states but insufficient for testimony.
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Public Safety Commissioner Martin Underwood ordered District State Police commanders to investigate and arrest operators of football pools in Anchorage and Fairbanks areas, with cooperation from City and State Police, to identify ringleaders and check for connections between locations or to other states.