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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1963)
Broader laws Asked To Help Fight Crime !Police Find Niece WASHINGTON UPI - Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy called on Congress today to approve two new weapons against crime im munity for witnesses in racket-, eering investigations and a broad er federal wire-tap law. The attorney general was the, lead-off witness in the Senate in-, vestigations subcommittee's long awaited hearings on the so-called "Cosa Nostra" underworld crime empire. The star witness at the hear-i ings, expected to last about three weeks, will he Joseph Valachi, the underworld's most celebrated stool pigeon. Valachi is said to have called the turn on about 30 gangland slayings and to have been marked for murder himself by the Cosa Nostra. Kennedy told the subcommittee there existed in the United States "a private government of organ ized crime, a government with an annual income of billions, resting on a base of human suffering and moral corrosion." He said that it was particular ly difficult to expose these oper ations because witnesses were in timidated and corrupt public offi cials protect Uie racketeer king pins. Code It Broken Kennedy said Valachi's disclo sures were significant because "(or the first time an insider a knowledgeable member of the racketeering hierarchy has bro ken the underworld's code of silence." Authority to provide immunity to witnesses would "materially assist our investigations of inter state racketeering in gambling liquor, narcotics, prostitution, ex tortion and bribery" and also help root out political corruption, Kennedy said. He said the need for a broad er federal wire-tap law arose be cause "leading racketeers make almost unrestricted use of inter state facilities, particularly com munications, to direct their ille gal activities." Kennedy said the present wire tap law not only "fails to protect the right of privacy over the tele phone," but also does not recog nize "the legitimate needs of law enforcement for authority, closely circumscribed, to use this means of gathering evidence." Must Arouse Public Most of all, Kennedy said, "we must encourage, arouse and sus tain the vigilance of the public... organized crime is a national problem. The racketeer is not someone dressed in a black shirt, white tie and diamond stickpin, whose activities affect only a re mote underworld circle. "He is more likely to be out fitted in a grey flannel suit and his influence is more likely to be as far-reaching as that of an im portant industrialist." The attorney general said that federal investigative agencies were now pooling information on more than 1,100 major racket eers. He said that a meeting such the 1957 Apalachin, N.Y., "crime convention" of more than 100 top gangsters could not take place unobserved today. Kennedy said Valachi and other informants had outlined the set up of Cosa Nostra (literally "our family" or "our thing") and its ruling "commission." Predicts Power Struggle He predicted the bloody onset of "a major underworld power struggle in New York" if Cosa Nostra kingpin Vito Genovcse fails to win release from federal prison on his appeal from a nar cotics conviction. He said that in the past two years at least three carefully planned commission meetings had to be called off because the Leo's Camera Shop has it! i r n The Superb New Bolex Zoom Reflex Automatic K1 b trying to match for years $429.50 complete And. F.E.T.) $49.95 Down the 8mm camera they'll For perfection in home movies, you need the best camera. That's the new Bolex Kl. It does everything but choose your subjects ! It won't let you make an eioosure mistake. Equipped with the famous Vario-Switar 36 zoom lens, the Kl gives you a wide range of focal lengths from 8mm wide angle to 36mm telephoto. 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I Kennedy said that while Gcno- vese is in prison Tommy Eboli is substituting for him in New York and Gerry Catena is doing the same in New Jersey ... Be cause ot the power Genovesc wielded within the organization and the fear in which he is held by the New Ygrk organization. no move has been made to take over the top spot while his ap peal of narcotics conviction is pending in the courts." I Of Princess Grace HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, September 25, 1963 Worker Found Guilty In Death DALLAS, Ore. IUPI) Adam C. Salinas, 23, a transient farm work er, was convicted in Polk County Circuit Court Tuesday of man slaughter in the death July 13 of Joseph Washington, 61. Circuit Judge Arhe Walker sen tenced Salinas to 15 years in the state penitentiary and fined him $500. Salinas had been charged with second degree murder. At the start of Tuesday's trial, Salinas withdrew an innocent plea, ad mitted the shooting and left the determination of the degree of guilt to Judge Walker. DES MOINES, Iowa. UPI -A young niece of princess Grace of Monaco awaited a trip back to Philadelphia today after a se cret, three-week stay in Dcs Moines with her boy friend. Police took in custody Mary Lee Davis, 15, and John Paul Jones Jr., 18, both of Philadel phia, Tuesday night after the boy's employer tipped them off. Miss Davis, whose mother, Mrs. Mary Davis Conlin, is a sister of Princess Grace, had been working as a waitress in the Randolph Hotel. Jones, the son of an architect, had been selling encyclopedias. The couple had been living in a m o d e s t furnished apartment. Their 1 a n d 1 a dy, Mrs. Evelyn Schmidt, said they were a "very quiet couple," and had caused no trouble. Police said Miss Davis and Jones declined to say whether they were married. Miss Davis, who disappeared Aug. 28 from the Ocean City, N. J., summer home of her ma ternal grandmother, Mrs. John B. Kelly, said that whether she would stay at home when she was returned there "depends on what happens." She would not elaborate. Jones, smiling, answered "no comment" to all questions. Mrs. Conlin asked police not to file charges. The parents of both Miss Davis and Jones were flying to Dcs Moines today. Police said James Waldon, Des Moines manager for an encyclo pedia firm, told them Tuesday night he had a young man in his employ whose "wife" closely matched a newspaper picture of the missing girl. Deaf Persons Plan Meeting PORTLAND (UPD-The annu al Northwest regional meeting of the Alexander Graham Bell Asso ciation for the Deaf will be held here Oct. 4-5. Several hundred persons from eight Western states and Western Canada are expected. Ole Miss Expels Negro Student Fireworks Blast In Italy Kills 14 CASERTA, Italy (UPD - An illegal fireworks factory blew up in the heart of this southern Italian town Tuesday, killing at least 14 persons and injuring 20 others at least nine seriously. The injured included Antonio Mariniello, 57, the factory owner, who was reported in critical con dition in a Naples hospital. Mariniello s factory was just across the main square from the town hall. Since the middle of the 19th century, the average length of life in the United States has in creased about 29 years. OXFORD, Miss. (UPI The University of Mississippi today returned to "all white" status. The university's only Negro student, Cleve McDowell, 21, was expelled Tuesday for carrying a pistol. The action, taken on the recommendation of the student Judicial Council, returned to the Deep South state its unique sys tem of totally segregated public schools. McDowell had been admitted to "Ole Miss" without incident last June. The university was descgreated under federal court order the pre vious year and paved the way (or the entrance of the school's fjrst Negro student, James H. Mere dith on Aug. 31, 1962. Meredith's admission touched of rioting that killed two persons and brought out federal troops to enforce the integration of the school. Meredith graduated last June. No public grade schools have been integrated in Mississippi, the only state with no racially mixed classrooms. Can Appeal Expulsion McDowell, who lives in the Mis sissippi delta town of Drew, could appeal his expulsion to the Stale College Board but it is unlikely the board which fought long and hard to keep the school seg regated would by sympathetic to his case. McDowell faces a hearing on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon in a justice of the peace court here Saturday but says he is not "certain" he will show up. "As far as I know I will be there but I have not conferred fully with my attorneys," he told United Press Internationa. "Nat urally, I will follow the advice of my counsel. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail plus a $100 fine. McDowell could forfeit the $250 bond his attorney posted for him before he was released from jail Tuesday. After the university's decision was announced, McDowell told nwsmen, "I have no emotion to express whatsoever at this time." He said he would have no further statements until after Saturday's hearing. Packs And Leaves McDowell, an honor graduate of Jackson State College (or Ne groes, packed up and left the campus immediately after he was notified of his expulsion. Nearly 200 students gathered in front of the campus cafeteria and watched his departure in silence. Campus police would not allow newsmen to talk to McDowell at the university but he was ques tioned briefly at a service station where he stopped for gasolone. 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