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Ry CHESTER POTTER Scripps-Howard Staff Writer HERE WAS something wrong in the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood on that warm evening a few years ago. It was an upper middleclass neighborhood in which re<pectable families, many of Italian descent, lived decent, normal lives. Ordinarily, the men and women sat—on their steps or porches, or talked across the fences. narily, the children raced down the sidewalks, rode bicycles, rol-Jer-skated, played games. But this night it was different.

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YOUR ENTRY By 8:30, the children were off the ' street and the men and women VE BEEN PUB- were off the porches. Lights sear in The Sun- blinked off in the living rooms; |. With this final bedroom windows were bright-| v ened briefly. » sheet on which That night, the Mafia struck.

f your matching A” man was shot dead as he neared his home in that quiet

neighborhood. .

a : There were no witnesses. No twins will be the one would talk. | the 53 winners. = # = | “ THAT IS the power of the

ching the most est gets second ) or more parwill be given an to match and tatement about

Mafia—fear, and certain retribution against informers. The Senate Committee Investi-| gating Organized Crime has run into the Mafia wherever it has turned its searching spotlight. Sen. Estes Kefauver, committee chairman, said recently: “We, have indications that there is| some super-secret organization which gives protection to its members. We find that in large cities there are well- organized, | © systematic, efficient rackets. And| they are divided up around the

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. that this organization controls © sections of the country, that it ~ operates a coast-to-coast gam- © bling ‘house empire, has a big — 1 piece of the slot-machine racket : and the numbers business, and is © smuggling dope into this country.

dn Chicago, Kansas City, St Léuis Miami, New York and | Philadelphia, the Committee has

been told about the Mafia when it dug into the higher echelons of organized crime.

| ask One of the Committee's top in- ' vestigators calls the Mafia “a modus operandi’—a. method of order operation. “You can call it The Syndicate, The Combination, the

Uhione Siciliane—call it anything you like,” he said, “but it is the Mafia. And it is ruthless and deadly.” The Mafia originated in Sicily anywhere from 150 to 500 years] ago—no one knows for certain. » - = DURING the 19th century, it robbed and terorized the wealthy in “Uicily. Victims who went to the police met violent fates. 1

| “Kidnaping for ransom was common."

« Extortion soon became a major firce of its income. Kidnaping for ransom, with death the shalty for failure to pay, was mon. e counterpart of the Mafia, ° kpown as the Camorra, was composed of the criminal element of Naples. They had much in com- ~ men, blood oaths, violence, re- * vehge and reprisal against their “= betrayers. Branches of both sprang up in This country, Bil BecATSE TIE Si=35 cilians outnumbered the Ne

t feared Siganims

tion. . AT IS DIFFICULT to say today! whether the Unione absorbed. the Mafia or vice versa, but it makes little difference. Both operated on the same lines. In the beginning, the heads of

ability to their organization by admitting Sicilians whose repu-| tations and occupations were, above question. After repeal eof prohibition © Songer hands took the reins. The Mafia went into business— business outside the 1 law,

SUNDAY, NOV. 19, 1950 Fear Is Its Power—

fia Again A Sinister Force In Underworld, Senators Told

“Ordi-

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country so they don’t run afoul

THE COMMITTEE has learned |

~ the racing wire servicé in some |

- had. “Mafia tie-ups.” ‘was one of the 23 Italians picked |

"hotel.

{Grand Council Those present, in addition to the

the Unione tried to lend respect-

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That night the Mafia struck . .. a man was

What and who—is the Mafia? H's s known fo be an ring, transplanted years ago from Sicily. No one dares \put the | finger on the boss, or bosses, and no one knows the extent of its sinister influence today. But Senate investigators are cont that the Mafia once more is a power in the underworld. Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Chester Potter here tells the

Call it what you will, but to- his arrival in that year. oo the police and enforcement it is still the come-lately. Mafia. i “The Mafia has a boss,” a NeWigan his Mafia ‘activities in New!

York official said. “I don’t know|york-—where he is supposed to iy Seymour, : LEXINGTON, Ky. (UP)—When his name. Frankly, I don’t think have started the kindred Unione! : Sa Cpl. Kenneth L. Cozad, son. of they opened the new fine arts it is anyone like Frank Costello, Siciliane-—a disreputable charcter| THE STATUTES permit the yo" ‘pincis Cozad, Butlerville. building on the campus of the We Have Closed Out Our Florida Store Charles Frischetti or Lucky Lu- named Giuseppe Esposito, alias| clusion of immigrants who = Shoe University of Kentucky, housing : pe have been ilty of crimes in- Cpl. James V. Wilson; brother JASEEG0 ) : . te} Thi le includ 1] . - Randazzo, appeared in New /oV¢ Buu}, L orimes IM of Easter Hidger, Kirklin. classrooms, auditoriums, work-| is sale includes all of this stock plus dozens of accordions iOrleans. olving moral turpitude in their ‘Note Pfc. Dushe R. Forbes, shops and laboratories, students from our regular inventory. Included are several pre-owned

From the date of his ¥ a steady increase in violent crime. {Twelve years later, in 1891, the | “Dest people” of New Orleans! {were provoked into retaliation. They mobbed a jail and hanged |

[the day before had beaten a {murder rap—the shooting of {Police Chief David Hennessey. ne | The Italian government broke! The moshing has been called | {of diplomatic relations with the a gathering of the Grand | United States, demanding reparaCouncil of the Mafia." |tions, an apology and protection) for its citizens. | ciano. They are out in front] One writer says the relations| where people can see them. I between the two countries \.ere| don’t think the Mafia works that so strained that from Boston to! way. The boss is someone who New Orleans there were fears never appears. |that the Italian fleet, then the] “But the Mafia has bosses in| fourth largest I the world, would | various cities. It has its own attack. { courts; it has its own prosecutors; : The affair was settled without its judges, andsits executioners. war, though the newspapers of “If I told you how I know— England, Germany and France and. I assure you I do know—| Were egging Italy on. my life wouldn't be worth a President Benjamin Harrison plugged nickel.” |paid the Italian government 125,You ‘could tell by the way he 1000 lire, then $24,330, in repara-| spoke that he believes his tions. The president's knowledge is deadly him. [brought ,w widespread criticism.

the 1900's. “Courts, morra,

nous Lupo wad strictly .a Giovanni- bons; the Mafia today is a criminal or-

Twenty years before Lupo be- 8anization.”

Inative land,

arrival as|¢or the compul la fugitive from Sicily, there was] [the SI SUTY Prodtietion uf

jor shot eight or 10 Italians who! i

{not obtain a passport.

action and Mr, Train's prediction |come true.

Columbus Man Killed in Korea

Fifteen Hoosiers On Casualty List

iment release.

Force, son of Mrs. Valeri Green, Columbus.

Sgt. Gino M. J, Carrera, Marines, son of Mrs Margaret Carrera, Clinton.

son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fra|zier, Gary |: Cpl. John B. Joyce, Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Joyce, Chicago. Pfc. Joseph L. Vargyas. Ma-

“ M. Vargyas, South Bend. hot a 2

THE LATE ARTHUR TRAIN, fines,

whose “Mr. Tutt” stories made iI, Williams, Hammond him famous, was an assistant (Cpl, Jack L. Moody, son of Earl Martin district attorney in New York in A, Moody, Terre Haute.

In 1912, in hig book Criminals and the Cahe wrote a great deal

Pfe. Jack L. Burns,

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about the Mafia. Sgt. . OSS, story of the Mafia and what's known about it its present existence. | “The Mafia, a purely Sicilian ay Jona =, Do Hugh B. —=—— product, exerts a much more ob- Gross, Evansville. THE NAME “Mafia” died out. THERE H. HAS BEEN a tendency vious influence in America than Cpl, Instead, authorities began re-'to blame Ignazio (Lupo the the Camorra,” Mr. Train said. sgn of Mr. and Mrs. |ferring to: The Syndicate, The Wolf) Saijetta for bringing the “Historically, the Mafia . . . rep-'Schoeff Huntington. {Combination, the Unione Si- Mafia to this country about resented the revolt of the people Pt 'S ol J. Willi Ir ciliane. 1899. Several -vriters have placed against all forms of the tyran- ,. re. Sarue of Mr. ey Mrs.

government of the Bouk- op 6) 5. Williams, Evansville. but the fact remains. that MISSING

1.t. Waldron Berry; Air son of Sherman H. Berry,

1st

That was in 1912, Force,

but do not: provide

gon of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence D.

‘penal certificate’ Forbes, Lagrange was previously Se hors there were no pencil| {under penalty of deportation. erroneously reported wounded.) . Re he All I MA k “Every Italian immigrant is Mr. and Mel. Times E: Hin. [PUCK DIES FIGHTING Popu ar makes

{obliged to secure a certified docu- ,,,, received a letter last week {ment from the police of his na- fom their son James E.

Jr. who tive place, giving his entire crim- iq

nal record or showing that he '(;)q them that he had been

has none, and without it he can- wounded in the left arm but that |

Anniversa To Be at Site of Wedding

| key will celebrate their 50th wed- - | Fifteen men have been added to [rey anniversary Saturday by the Indiana casualty list today holding open house in their Cleraccording to a Defense Depart- mont home, which stands on the isite of the log cabin in which @

KILLED IN ACTION they were married. hours after Judge Ryan ruled | M/Sgt. Avery J. Green, Adr| Mr. Starkey, 71, and his wife, {that U. ‘8S. Attorney General J. Mog Maude, 70, will receive family and Howard McGrath had i

friends from 3 p. m. to 7 p. m. {Refreshments will be served.

WOUNDED Both are members of the recently under the term of the Sgt. James E. Hinman Jr, | Methodist Church in Clermont. ‘new internal security act. The Marines, son of Mr, and Mrs Mrs. ‘Starkey holds charter mem- S laliens previously had been free James E. Hinman, 2742 Stuart bership in . Pocahontas Lodge ? in bail ranging from $1,000 to St. |{there, and her husband recently Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Starkey $1 $10,000 each.

received a 50-year membership, certificate from Order of Red {Men

Pfc. Robert L. Frazier, Marines,’ ‘dren.

step-grandchildren, {grandchildren and great- grandchildren.

Broad Ripple Hi-Y rines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Chapter Admits 14

Pfc. John H., Williams Jr.,, Ma- into the Broad Ripple High School son of Mr. and Mrs. Hohn chapter of the Hi-Y recently.

Fritz King, Bob King, John WilMarines, liams, Bob Cook, Nate Streitmat-| son of Mrs. Thelma Ault, Koko- ter, Bill Johnson, Fred Fox, Jerry Mills, Marines, and David Laurie,

were Pete Bridgford, president; Carl E. Schoeff, Marines, Ted Jordan, vice president; John] Wilhelm Riddle, Chaplain; Spencer Trud-| gen, treasurer; Tom Johnson, sec-! retary; Bob Daisey, sergeant-at-arms; John Lemon, Schyler Brig-

{nall, Bob Carey, George Seidensticker, Pete Scudder and Eddie Shearer.

NO PENCIL SHARPENERS

found one matter had been for-|

luck wourided Nov. 6 in Korea, He ry

ry. Open House

Clermont Couple . Married 50 Years

Mr. and Mrs. Franklin ©. Star- °

_ |other aliens facing cerrision were free in bail today because Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan found no evidence to support the government's claim that they were a “security peril.” ® The 16 alleged subversives were . |freed from Ellis Island a few

his discretion” in denying them bail when they were rearrested

Descendants include eight chil! 17 grandchildren, seven three greatseven step-

Fourteen boys. were inducted

New members are: Lane Sims, Carlin, Alfred Combs,

Tom Konop, Dillon Huder,

Presiding over the induction

EY (SUNDAY) 2P. M. to 5P. M.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UP) —Conservation officers found a that had fought itself to against a mirror when it

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he was getting-along fines—— “For several years efforts have Sgt. Hinman, who plans to been ‘made to insert in our iffi- make the service his career, first migration laws a provision that enlisted in 1943. He fought on,

|every immigrant must produce it Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. Dis-|

(the certificate) before he can be charged in 1946, he re-enlisted sure of admission to the United six months later. He attended |States. Technical High School,

“If this proposed law should be ; Offer of $5 Bills

{passed by ‘Congress the exclusion lof Italian—eriminals would be alFound Sales Method NILES, Mich. (UP)—Several

{most automatic, “But if it or some similar pro{vision fails to become law, it is housewives called police when {not too much to say that we may {wo men offered to give them $5 well anticipate a Camorro (or pis. (Mafia) of ‘some sort in every lo-| Leslie J. DePly and Gene Bel(cality in our country having a knap, both 20, convinced authori{large Italian population.” ties they were furniture salesmen The law was never passed— and had offered the money as a has “come on” start their sales patter.

IN HIS tostiniony. before the] Senate Crime Committee, Virgil H. Peterson, operating director of the Chicago Crime Commission, gave some information about Joe! Profacci, 21 notorious Brooklyn | character. He said he reputedly - | In December, 1928, Profacei up in- a police raid-on-a Cleveland! Guns were found in the bags of '3 of them. When it was found that none of them was “wanted” anywhere they were released., Since then, that meeting has‘ been called a -gathering of the ton too NAIL UT Cleveland contingent, were from Brooklyn, Tampa, Chicago, New-| ark and Iselin, N. J. Buffalo, Gary, Ind. and St. Louis. Twenty .years later—July 20, | 1948 —an attorney from Brooklyn! appeared at Cleveland police headuarters .and demanded Pro-! facei's fingerprint and photograph| record on the ground that he! had never een convicted of any crime. What prompted Profacci, 20 years later, to get his. prints

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