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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
One of the requirements for
initial listing on the Big Board
is, generally, that a company
have at least a half million com
mon shares outstanding, exclusive
of concentrated or family hold
ings, among not less than 1.300
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