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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1963)
i PACE -A Sunday, August !5, 1963 ' HERALD AVD NTWS, Klamath Fall. Ore. "DENNIS THE MENACE 1 1 'Blabbermouth Of Cosa Nostra' Fingers Sight Crime Lords j ' MaVaWBaMaMMatMMaHMriMHHl'B11 H ' 'ZJ i '05U10 I HAVg H0TOOG3 INSTEAD OF BANANAS OH : My 6AKANA 5PUT2 Technical Troubles Slow Work On Nuclear Rocket i I.OS ALAMOS, N.M. (UPI) for six years, the plight of a lick bird has been puzzling scien fcsts at the Atomic Energy Com- Jhission's laboratory here. J The bird is frail and something of a diagnostician's nightmare no one can figure out where it hurts and why. No wonder. The bird's diet is hydrogen gas! The bird with the belly ache is Kiwi, an experimental nuclear reactor that is the heart of the .United States' first nuclear rock et engine designed for space , flight. Named for a flightless New Zealand bird, the prototype's in testinal spasms are taking a lot lf lime and costing millions of Hollars. But the diagnosis and 'ure for the ailment may be yorth every penny and every fretful moment. Looking beyond the projected manned lunar journey called project Apollo, the best minds in She American space program con cede man cannot venture much farther than the moon without nu clear rocket power. Pusses Billion Mark ' Kiwi is a division of Rover, a project which within the next few years probably will cost consid erably more than SI billion Scientists at the Los Alamos scientific laboratory liave found l)om the beginning that almost everything is harder than in con ventional rocket - building. They persist because the rewards for success will be almost incalcula bly great. ,' Science however, is not so easi ly persuaded to cooperate. Proj ect Hover is hung up with tech nical troubles ami any hope that Jlie first journey to the moon might have utilitized nuclear power officially has been abandoned. ; Rover scientists at Los Alamos remain convinced, though, that tticy will succeed within this dxwlc in building and testing a Workable nuclear rocket. I Last April, the director of. the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office described a 4no-day sacc expe dition in which a nuclear- propelled vehicle would travel to an orbit around Mars, land men tor 40 days of exploration, then recover and return them to earth. Has Wright Advantage Harold Kinger, whose office co ordinates AF.C and NASA work on Project Rover, told the Sen ate Space Committee that "a nuclear- propelled spacecraft would weigh one-fifth to one- tenth tlie weight of a chemically propelled spacecraft . . . without nuclear propulsion we do not be licve this kind of mission would he possible." Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, chair man of the A EC, told the same committee: "For many of the proposed missions by NASA and others in space there appears to be no substitute for nuclear power because of the require ments for large amounts of en ergy in compact form. Nuclear rocketa will be re quired to carry out many differ ent proposed' missions . . . log istic supply for manned lunar sta tions (post Apollol . . . observa tions of Venus and probes of more distant plants . . manned exploration of the near planets." Today, tlhe project involved in building the nuclear rocket en gine that would do this Jon is considered tougher than the con slruction of the first atomic bomb 20 years ago. The A-bomb, Hie scientists ex plain, was built by meeting and solving predictable, expected problems. Every development in Project Rover seems to create new problems. When one is solved, two more crop up in its place. No one yet knows, lor a cor- tainity, tliat Project Hover ww succeed. But the timetable for the chemically - powered Apollo manned lunar expedition already is in doubt. And Apollo budget demands arc meeting major re sistance in Congress. The earliest NASA ever hoped or n manned moon shot was 19117. If tliat dale should in real ity be as late as 1070, and if Rover hereafter progresses with out major hitches, the first moon astronauts may after all-ronjoy the big boost of nuclear power. ! By II. D. QL'Kifi ! L'nilrd Preu International Middle-aged and Jowly. Pudgy- faced, with eyes that shift. Hard i minds, fixed on the business that's always at hand. These men ;rule. ! Their kingdoms are eight major cities, plus the near and far sub urbs that ring them. Their over all cartel of crime is a shadowy substance cal.'ed "Cosa Nos tra." No hard alliance here ex cept for recurring family tics. Just an understanding, the snarl ing palship of big cats that prey in a common jungle. These men are the commis-1 sion" that presides over or ganized crime in the United States, according to the Justice Department. The information has been coming for some time from a former Cosa Nostra member, Joe Valachi, a frightened man in an Army fort. Depending on which paper you read, Valachi is "Singing Joe," "The Talking Terrorist," "The Singsong Hoodlum," or "The Blabbermouth of Cosa Nostra." But his song is not so funny. A quarter - century ago, an other singer named Abe Reles be gan a roundelay about a kill-for-l hire mob in Brooklyn called Mur der, Inc. In !!)41, in mid-song, Roles went out the window of a Coney Island hotel to his death, while guarded by police. And spawned an underworld saying: This was one canary who could sing but couldn't fly." Hence the placement of Valachi in heavily uarded Ft. Monmouth, N. J. Reles sang of a murdering gang with romantic names. Valachi's overlords have no such nonsense about them. To day's crop, underworld business men of distinction, born mostly in Sicily and Italy, arc described as sincere, affable; one looks like a retired gentleman, another like "a kindly old grandfather.' Cosa Nostra is an Italian idiom meaning our business, our af fair." Their business is vice, which the dictionary says means evil conduct. The underworld also has invested heavily in legiti mate business. Their overall take is estimated at $40 billion a year. As named by Valachi, the big city bosses arc: Vilo Genovese, 68, New York I the head man I, now in Leaven worth Penitentiary. Sam Giancana, 55, Chicago. Joseph Zcrilli, 65, Detroit. Sebastian LaRocca, 61, Pitts burgh. Angelo Bruno, 53, Philadelphia Stefano Magaddino, 71, Buffalo, Raymond Patriarca, 55, New England. John T. Scalish, 51, Cleveland Who are these kings of un- glory? Let's see. lion" at a country estate in the he'd have to step down. In 1956.iaked at a 1959 Senate hearing if wooded hills near Apalachin,i.Sam took over. he hadn't escaped stale troopers . V. Giancana was good at investing jt the Apalachin crime conven- Ile had learned his lessons well, in semi - legitimate enterprises in errand-running years serving, such as construction and auto agency financing PLANS NKW II1KK ZENNOR, England I UPI I I)r Barbara Moore, the 5!l-year-old marathon hiker, Sunday began a planned 1,000-nnlc walk from Land's End to John O'Groat's in Scotland. Mrs. Moore made the trij) three years ago m 21 days. In I!IM) she walked tram San Francisco to New York. LITTLE PEOPLE'S PUZZLE I V M 3ACRQ65 At b xj 1 1 I I I -JSsKi Hi ! l i i i : . 1 p "q j DOWN POWN r" 5 ACROSS 7 T 3 I r Vr' l I.Jf., ..... A.J...liiu.j.-,.-..iiit .ii ii VITO GENOVESE Might as well start at the top. Vilo Genovese. "the benevolent squire, is reputed to be worth $30 million. He once presided over a rmnti-milhon-dollar nar cotics ring. The fifi-ycar-old native of Italy s named as the overall boss. A IllttO narcotics conviction got him a 15-year federal prison sentence, ;ind for a long time Valachi, the! present songbird of flic barracks, was his cellmate. Genovese, a nervous, wiry, he peclacled little man, rose to the top of the crime syndicate in l!i.7. that was the vear of the notorious "underworld ronven. the underworlds of America and Italy. According to the sing ofi the minstrel Valachi, Genovese elevated himself by three nods of the head in 1957. First he nodded to his chauffeur who went out and took a potshot at kingpin Frank Costello but muffed it; the bullet only grazed Frank's head. But the gesture encouraged Costello to rendezvous with retirement. Another nod. and down dead went Frank Scalise while munch ing a peach outside a Bronx fruit store. The gang-gunning of Scalise eliminated a pal of both Costello and an absentee vicelord, Lucky, Luciano. Nod three, the song goes, was for Albert Anastasia, who was caught in the act of getting ton sured in a Manhattan hotel par lor. He died with his barber's bib on After these nods, and after the convention, Genovese was the boy on top. The two murders and the attempted murder are official ly unsolved. By this time, Genovese was liv ing quietly in the Jersey Shore community of Atlantic Highlands. His daughter was installed next door with his six grandchildren Neighbors spoke of his grand fatherly attitude. Genovese had been a scared young hood in 1934 when he fled from New York to Italy to es- cape prosecution in the murder of one Ferdinand Boccia. He had become an American citizen in 1913. When the American army arrived in Italy in World War II, there was Vito, He had been hobnobbing with top fascists, including Mussolini, for some years, according to later Army intelligence testimony. He got himself a job as interpreter with the incoming American army and began stealing American sup plies and doing black market business with some of his fascist pals. Army intelligence got wise Then they found he was wanted for murder in New York. Back came Vito, in 1945. However, two key witnesses against him were quickly murdered. Genovese was acquitted. Back home, according to the song, he got a bit jealous over what he presumed Mis. Genovese had been doing in his absence, bickered apace with her, and tin kered with having her murdered Instead, Valachi says, he ordered the execution of one of her part ners in a night spot. She is now said to be living with her aging mother "quietly," as the saying goes. A widower since 1954, he lives maybe one week a month in a comfortable home in Oak Park, III. Rest of the time he darts; If he's a big wheel, he around the country. lately, been, look it. tion by running away through the woods, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment. "I know LaRocca to see," said a downtown worker. "He reminds me of a tried old Italian laborer. doesn't gadding about Europe. He is a friend of singer Phyllis McGuire. He has three daughters. His main hobbies are golf,! night clubs, and church work- he is highly regarded in Oak Park circles. At 5-eet-10, he s es caped a pot belly but is balding, dresses trimly, talks like a gen tleman except when viciously mad. But the FBI made life mis erable this year. tntii.5 f WHS Gangsters gh 8-18 WH2 1st add Gangsters x x x x year. They posted a 24-hour guard at his home, badgered him at golf, asked "Why don't you leave the country?" He couldn't attend to business because they were so pesky. Sam pressed a civil rights suit against the FBI. A federal judge this summer ordered them to quit the close surveillance and placed the chief FBI agent here under sentence for contempt Poor Sam. The appeals court re versed this, and this month Su preme Court Justice Tom Clark turned down Giancana's appeal JOSEPH ZERILLI Joscpn Zcrilli, 65, the man listed by the Justice Department in Detroit, points out that he has been in the bakery business fori 36 years and. besides that, he never heard of this singer Vala chi. Zcrilli was "Mr. Joe" in the Prohibition era, regarded as a leading beer baron. He was con victed in 1919 of carrying a con cealed weapon. Fine $50. That's II. ne was norn in Sicily, came here in 1914 and was naturalized He now lives in Grosse Pointe Park and has financial interests, in a produce company and a bakery. He is married and has three daughters and a son. The belief in Detroit is that. rather than being a one-man op eration, the syndicate there is a multi - man" organization with no one "boss." Facility To Aid Study Of Space STANFORD. Calif. (UPP - A new radar astronomy facility is being established at Stanford Uni- vi-i : ny 10 icarn more annul space and the phenomena that exist in it. One of the activities planned for the center is (he new technique of Distant' radar astronomy" ii which scientists trv to bridue tin gap between techniques using ground - based instruments and those using .space probes to ex plore the solar system. "Histatic" radar puts transmit ter and receiver at different lo cationsa giant transmitter on the ground, for instance, and a small receiver in a spacecraft. Ordinary systems luivc both the transmitter and receiver in the same place. The Stanford scientists say the "histatic" method which will be used by the new center in con nection with a planned probe of Mars m late 1964 gives more de tailed information about the sur face of a planet and characteris tics of its atmosphere. The new center is a joint proj ect of the university and a pri vately operated organization, Stnntoid Research Institute. Fi nancial support conies mainly from the Air Force Cambridge Research laboratories and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with additional aid from the National Science Foun dation and the Olfice of Naval Research. SAM GIANCANA Next, we have a pretty dash ing fellow, Sam Giancana. Back in 1928, the Chicago Crime Commission made .1 note to watch a tough, 20-year-old, black haired West Sider named Salva tore Momo Giancana. Giancana was a comer. Had all it takes to make it big with the mobs. There were right. Since 1956, Sam has been the acknowledged head of the Chicago mob. At 55, Sam is one of the younger of the national "commis sion" members named by the Justice Department. Sort of a precocious kid. ' Been to jail only twice 2'i years in 1940 fori moonshining, two years in 1929 for burglary. An indictment for murder in 1927 was dropped when the only witness was fatally shot. In I9a3, it s rumored, the na tional syndicate chiefs told then Chicago boss Anthony Accardo1 JOHN LaROCCA Nestled on several acres of woodland in a suburb 10 miles north of Pittsburgh is a rambling stone "show place" home. There lives a very wealthy man who never visits nightclubs but every aaiuraay without tail visits a steam bath at the Oakland YMHA. It is no secret that he is verv wealthy. But John Sebastian iBiel Johnl LaRocca. now 61, is risen Irom poverty. Born in Sicily, he came here and worked in a coal mine at the age of 14. Then he operated a gasoline station. Then he moved into bootlegging and eventually (he numbers racket. His acquaintances sav he would like now to cut all ties with the rackets, but he is a board mem. ber of the syndicate and has been for many years. He operates a legitimate business, a concrete block supply firm. Itc wears conservative tailored suits over his 5 - 9, 165 - pound frame, uses fairly eood irrammar only in lapses allows "vouse guys" to sprinkle his conversation. LaRocca served three vears in the 1920's on conviction of assault with intent to kill, and has later, beaten deportation and neriurv cases brought against him. When'lawver and sue.' That may be the way Big John likes it. ANGELO Bltl'NO Italian-born Angelo Bruno. 53, heads Penn-Jersey Vending, Inc.. in Philadelphia. He lives modest-! ly in a two-story row house and is considered a good, quiet neigh-j bor. Doesn't go for night life or sports events. Police say he has another home in another section where his wife Sue and two chil dren live. This retiring figure is tabbed by police commissioner Howard R. Leary as "a shrewd, leader who has very great influence be yond the confines of Pennsylvania." The head man of (he rackets in Philadelphia," said the head of the special investigation squad, 'but he docsn t go near the ac tual operation." His police record ol violation charges and disposals from 1928 to 1961 goes: Reckless drivin discharged: firearms act. a quitted; disorderly conduct, $10 fine; illegal lottery, guilty, put on one-year probation; illegal lottery discharged; receiving stolen goods, acquitted; illegal lottery fined $600, given three years pro bation: common gambler, dis charged; dangerous drug act, dis charged. STEFANO MAGADDINO "Look at him," said a Buffalo N. Y., detective, staring at the picture of Stefano Magaddino, "Looks like a kindly old grand father; looks like he wouldn't hurt a flea." Buffalo police have no record of arrests against Magaddino, an affable, congenial old man who at 71 is co-president with his son Peter of the family undertaking business in Niagara Falls. A Buffalo police chart titled 'Mafia 'syndicate! relationship" has a series of circles each rep resenting a known underworld denizen. Arrows from the small circles point to other circles and. the end, to a center circle marked "Stefano Magaddino." Stefano was born in Sicily Not long after he moved to Niagara rails, his sister Arcangela mar- rieo imc'k umgo, wno was con nected with gambler Willie Moret ti, and they lived near Stefano. In 1936. the Longo house was bombed. It killed Arcangela and damaged Slefano's house. Buffalo police say Stefano now adays usually comes lo town from nearby Lewislown only for fu nerals (usually of hoodlums'. There have been 10 oancland- style killings in the Buffalo area since 1957. JOHN SCALISH John T. Scalish, 51, is the babv of the bunch. He spends a lot of time fishing and boating in Lake Eric. Cleveland-born, he lives there in a big old frame house with his wife Tillie and three children, and he's building a $100,000 home in another section. Of the Justice Department's naming him as one of the crime overlords, he told the Cleveland Press: "1 don't know why thev're picking on me now. I've kept my nose clean for 30 years. The only way I can stop them is get a Scalish is a handsome type, with brown eyes and wavy black hair flecked with gray and with a crescent-shaped tear at the outer corner of his right eye. He drives a Chrysler Imperial, pays his bills in cash, has no bank ac counts. He has stated his in come as a partner in the Buckeye Cigaret Service is $30,000 a year. Scalish's police record includes arrests in the early 1930s for traffic violation, burglary, and armed robbery, and he served time in the Ohio Stale Reforma tory. He was one of the 20 delegates to the Apalachin crime conven tion convicted of a conspiracy of silence to obstruct justice, and was sentenced, and then the court of appeals upset The convictions. RAVMOND PATRIARCA Raymond L. S. Patriarca, 55, is a small, dapper man who was described in 1957 by Ihe Massa chusetts Crime Commission as the "most powerful influence" in an interstate gambling network doing a $2 billion annual busi ness in Massachusetts. A former Massachusetts assis tant attorney general told a Ke fauver crime hearing in 1950 that Patriarca, to whom Providence, It. I., is home, wa? attempting to muscle in on the race informa tion service that supplied an esti mated 3,000 bookies in Rhode Island. He has also been linked withUmpeachment of Daniel H. Coak- members of the Costello outfit in ley, a veteran member of the New York. (executive council in Massachu- Patriarca's criminal record be- setts, gan in 1926 when he was fined! Former Gov. Charles F. Jfur S20 for failing to stop at a po-p testified during the impeach " 'rnent trial that Coakkv told him hceman's signal. He later waslhe par(jon was endorsed by arrested 27 times and convicted, patriarca's pastor and two of his 16 times on charges ranging fromlclergy. Hurley said he didn't idice playing on Sunday to armed know that the names of the pas- robbery. In Boston, in 1938. he was pardoned 84 days from the time tor and priests .were either non existent or forged. Patriarca was brought back be was sentenced to serve three!from his honeymoon, sent up on to five years for armed robbery. I another robbery charge, and This pardon, and others, touched: hasn't been back in jail since he off a scandal which led to the got out in 1944. OTICE! All grocery and variety specials in last Thursday's Big-Y Ad good through this coming Wednesday! IG-Y Super Market 4710 South 6th vafr'iv.lW irifriiai awf 3 Stock Exchange Followers Predict New Record Figure FINANCIAL GOSSIP By JESSE ROGUE I'PI Klnanrial Editor NEW YORK illPD The month when New York Stock Exchange followers cxcet another record tTgure is just around the corner. The daily fluctuations of prices on the exchange, largest of the securities auction markets in the United States, have little to do with the new figure. But the exchange magazine in its most recent issue said editor ially that by the end of Septem ber there would he a record 8! billion shares of stock listed the "Big Hoard." Now, not every man, woman and child in the United States owns slock, but if they did, at the present population figures of under 200 million, this would roi resent the equivalent of 40 shares of stock for every inhabitant. The exchange magazine said that the increase in the number of shares does not mean that a large number of companies have joined the listing on the exchange over the past few years, although the number has increased. But one of the reasons for the gain has been stock sp!its another to a lesser degree is stock dividends. During the lirst half of the vear, for example, 27 of the companies listed on the exchange split their stocks 2-for-l or more, and 14 of these were utilities companies. Most companies urge splits to keep their stocks in low er price ranges, which investors seem to prefer, and to increase shareholders. the number of shareholders. It was not until the end of 1929, the magazine said, that the av erage number of listed shares crossed the 1 billion mark: at the end of 1948, it was more than 2 billion, and at the end of 1962 there were 7.373,570.525 shares listed. 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