Mrs. Grant. There has never been any criminal action in my family as much as I know.
Mr. Burleson. Now, as to Jack’s recent last 10 years, you know of no contacts he has had either in person or by telephone——
Mrs. Grant. I want to correct that.
Mr. Burleson. With any person of an undesirable or criminal element?
Mrs. Grant. Well, the way you look at it—now, the AGVA is a highly recognized organization in the world—it is the Actor’s Guild and Jack had a lot of trouble here with certain other nightclub owners. We had known that a certain individual has upped himself up from racketeering to this particular organization.
Mr. Burleson. Who is that individual, do you know that individual’s name?
Mrs. Grant. Now, as I know him, he used to be a cocktail lounge owner and he is in that slip. His name is Jack Yanover. We know his parents—I’ve known the man 40 years. He’s a man 65 years old.
Mr. Burleson. He had some type of criminal element?
Mrs. Grant. Let me tell you—to get into these union deals and everything, Jack—by the way you know Jack was a union organizer and became an officer, but the man he was connected with was a highly reputable lawyer. That’s why they killed him—Leon Cook. Jack himself never had any connections with gangsters for money, for business, for sociability. On the other hand, when we saw them we acknowledged them. When my father died——
Mr. Burleson. Now, let me bring you up to the last 10 years—do you know of any telephone contacts Jack has had?