Mr. HUBERT. Did you discuss with him at any time, either on Friday
night or Saturday morning, the fact that he had closed the clubs, and
the reason therefor?
Mr. SENATOR. He told me why he closed the club. He put this in heavy
black, in heavy black block, that the Carousel will be closed Friday,
Saturday, and Sunday, because he thought it was a terrible thing for
anybody to be dancing and entertaining or drinking of that nature there
at a time such as this.
Mr. HUBERT. You say that he put an ad In the paper Friday night that
the club would be closed for 3 days?
Mr. SENATOR. I don’t know what time because I assume he put it in
sometime Friday afternoon.
Mr. HUBERT. But the first time you saw the notice about the closing of
the clubs, there was an announcement that the club would be closed for
3 days?
Mr. SENATOR. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, I mean Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. That is the way the ad ran.
Mr. HUBERT. And you saw that on Friday night before going to sleep?
Mr. SENATOR. Yes.
Mr. HUBERT. Did you ever talk to him about it?
Mr. SENATOR. About the ad?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. SENATOR. Being closed?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. SENATOR. I told him that I read it.
Mr. HUBERT. And what was his comment, or query?
Mr. SENATOR. He was hoping that everybody else would close. He was
hoping that the two other strip joints would close when they read his
ad, because he didn’t feel they should be open on account of the simple
reason of the tragedy that happened, where they should be having
entertainment, dancing, and drinking. He didn’t think it was the right
thing to do at this time.
Mr. HUBERT. Did he indicate to you that he thought it would hurt them
if they did not close also?
Mr. SENATOR. That it would hurt their business?
Mr. HUBERT. The other business, his competitors?
Mr. SENATOR. Well, I don’t know about that, but I assumed, of course,
I am assuming only what I think, that I believe a lot of stores also
closed that day. I think Neiman Marcus closed. I believe in that
downtown area there was quite a few stores that did close.
Mr. HUBERT. Did it come to your attention that he was attempting to
keep his competitors from knowing that he proposed to close?
Mr. SENATOR. How could he when he ran an ad?
Mr. HUBERT. I mean for the Friday night.
Mr. SENATOR. To keep them from knowing?
Mr. HUBERT. Yes.
Mr. SENATOR. Not that I know of.