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Mrs. Bcrnardiae Matheny, a volunteer at
Barney Neighborhoml House, a United Giv
ers Fund agency, helps Deborah Fenner,
10, and Raymond Page, 10, plant flowers in
window boxes they made at the agency at
Board Upheld
On Fingerprints
Disclosure to Police
Backed by Court
By ANNE CHRISTMAS
Star Staff Writer
The Montgomery County'
School Board’s right to turn
over school employes’ finger
print records to county police
was upheld today in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court.
Judge Ralph O. Shure over
turned a July 2 order by the
Maryland State Board of Edu
cation. which forbid the trans
fer. and declared the State
order illegal.
The county school board had
ordered the transfer on May
27. The move immediately was
protested as "an invasion of
privacy” by representatives of
the Montgomery County Edu
cation Association.
Three school board employes
filed suit on June 25 asking
that the school board be re
strained from carrying out the
transfer.
After the suit was filed, the
State Board of Education issued
its order forbidding the trans
fer.
In upholding the school
board's right to transfer finger
print records from the school
personnel office, where they
had been processed, Judge
Shure said:
“There must be strong con-
See FINGERPRINTS, Page A-6
"It is in the nature of the
federal system that the-
President now must project ,
his pions and programs into
his second term without
knowing that he will surely
serve ft-.
-
Columnist Richard Wilson
finds the President's willing
ness to enter into joint
Russo-Soviet space projects
reflects an interesting
change of his "grand de
sign." ■ _ ■
Page A-23
UGF HELPS MAKE FLOWERS GROW
St /Elizabeths Escape Survey
Shows 17 in New Crimes
By J. THEODORE CROWN
BUr atttt Writer
Washington police officials
today disclosed details of a
special survey showing that at
'least 17 escapees from Bt.
Elizabeths Hospital this year
were suspected criminals who
were recaptured after com
mitting new crimes while at
large.
A total of 94 persons left the
hospital without authorization
or eluded hospital guards to
escape since January 1, the
report stated.
Survey data was compiled by
the department’s Special In
vestigations Squad and sub
mitted to Chief Robert V.
Murray by Deputy Chief John
B. Layton, chief of detectives.
Dr. Dale C. Cameron, St.
Elizabeths superintendent, to
day agreed to confer with Chief
Murray on security measures
employed at the hospital.
2 Detectives Shot
Yesterday, Chief Murray sent
Dr. Cameron a letter recom
mending the meeting to review
the escape problem.
Concern over the hospital’s
methods of confining known
Fake Cuba Peso Plot
Holds 3 From Area
- Two Washington area men'.
Were implicated by the Secret '
Service today in a plot to flood
Castro Cuba with SSO million '
in counterfeit Cuban currency
to depress the peso.
Secret Service agents in New
York last night arrested Mario
Garcia Kohly, 62, who gave his
address as the River House in
Arlington, and issued a war
rant for a man identified as
Bill Evans, alias Bill Grosch,
bf Washington.
When Garcia Kohly was ar
rested in a sr'dtown hotel room,
he had in his possession a
large number of counterfeit
plates to be used in producing
bogus Cuban 50-peso notes,
according to United States At
torney Robert M. Morgenthau.
Secret Service agents also
arrested Robert D. Morrow and
his wife, Cecily, at their home
in Baltimore last night. They
said Morrow, a 39-year-old
electronics engineer, and his
wife, an artist, combined their
talents to produce the plates.
Garcia Kohly. according to
the agents, claimed member
ship in. the Miami-based
United Organizations for the
Liberation.of'Cuba. He said the
, objective of the conspiracy
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J WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
3113 Sixteenth street N.W. this summer to
beautify their neighborhood. Barney is one of
143 agencies for which UGF is seeking |3.3
million in its fund drive. (Story on Page
D-l). —Star Staff Photo by Jon Par rack.
or suspected criminals during
periods of treatment or obser
vation mounted this week after
the shooting of two Washingon
detectives by a mental patient
Saturday.
Deputy Chief Layton's report
stated that 54 of this year’s
94 escapees have been taken
back into custody. Seven cases
are under current investiga
tion. Thirty-three of the 94
patient escapes are listed as
“open” cases—still at large.
Crimes charged to mental
patients after escapes this year
included murder, rape, assault
with intent to kill, assault with
intent to rape, car theft, armed
robbery and child molestation.
17 on List
One police official said detec
tives now believe that several
unsolved criminal acts may
l have been committed by mental
patients who slip out of the
institution for brief periods,
then return, sometimes unde
tected. There are specific cases
of this type on the record, it
was noted.
The report’s list of 17
escapees recaptured after al
legedly committing criminal
was\to further deflate the al
ready nearly worthless cur
rency of Communist Cuba by
smuggling the phony bills into
Cuba for use of the under
ground.
Federal sources said the plot
was discovered three months
ago. Acting on secret informa
tion. an undercover agent of
the Secret Service gained the
men's confidence and pre
tended to go along with the
scheme, reporters were told.
Mr. Morgenthau said Garcia
Kohly pressured the agent to
print the counterfeit Cuban
notes and it was arranged that
the suspect would give the un
dercover agent the plates at
the hotel last night. Other
agents sprang the trap when
the two men met in Garcia
Kohly’s room, and the other
arrests followed,
Garcia Kohly told the Secret
Service he is a son of a former
Cuban Ambassador to Spain
and that he has been in the
United States since 1959. He
claimed last year to be head
of a Cuban anti-Castro gov
ernment in exile. United States
Government sources said at the
time he was known for making
exaggerated statements about
his role.
WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1963-104 PAGES
acts while at large include the
following:
Eugene W. Rollins. 34. re
ported missing from the hos
pital last April 1. On May 11.
an Arlington auto salesman
was found shot to death in his
auto. Rollins was arrested on
May 13 and charged with the
murder.
Rollins had been committed
to St. Elizabeths after being
charged with assault and
housebreaking.
Two other persons—both St.
Elizabeths fugitives—were tak
en into custody with Rollins.
See ESCAPES, Page A-6
JOE VALACHI'S WINDING TALE
Heads Spin Over Story of Our Gang
By MARY McGRORY
Bt»r Staff Writer
Senators are finding out
that when you ask a man
like Joseph Valachi, “What
do you hear from the mob,”
you let yourself in for some
thing.
Valachi's testimony is
pretty heady fare, particular
ly for the members from
those wholesome farm States
where people carry violins
in violin cases. ,
As a matter of fact, trying
to unravel Valachi’s long an
swers is like eating spaghetti.
Spear a strand and it turns
out to be a yard long. Roll it
around your fork and lift it
up, and it suddenly slips off
in a splatter. There just
isn't an easy way.
Senator Mundt, Republican
of South Dakota, who has
shown great appetite for the
Valachi disclosures, gave up
at one point yesterday.
“I'm confused,” he said.
“When you say ‘they,’ do
you mean the people you’re
trying to kill?”
"No,” said Valachi. “When
I say ‘they,” I mean our
gang.”
It isn’t all Valachi’s fault.
It is true that he has such a
memory for the details of
33 - year -old murders, it’s
like trying to follow the plot
of ‘Rigolevto’ as told by
Damon Runyon, with maybe
a few chapters of the War
of the Roses thrown in. But
the principal problem is the
names.
You can’t blame Valachi
for the fact that a man
whose name is Girolamo San
tucci calls himself profes
sionally “Bobby Doyle,” or
Gang Boss Killings
Detailed by Valachi
Dodgers Lead
Yanks, 5-0, in
Sixth Inning
KOKS BY INNINGS
Lm SnadM 041 000 -
New York 000 000 - .
Soulei and Roseboro; Fort. William
iftthi and Reward.
HOME RUNS
Roxboro <ld>. 8 on.
BULLETIN ;
NEW YORK <API.—The ,
Los Angeles Dodgers, riding (
a three-run homer by John ,
Roseboro and the over- '
powering pitching of Sandy <
Koufax, led the New York
Yankees, 5-0, after 5V a in
nings of the World Series ■
opener today. Ij
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (AP).—
Whitey Ford, an established
World Series starter, opened
the World Series for the New '
York Yankees today against
Sandy Koufax, the Los Angeles’
strikeout ace and 25-game
winner, in a battle of left
handers at Yankee Stadium.
It was clear and warm with
a slight haze, perfect weather
for baseball. A crowd of about
70,000 turned out.
Because Ken McMullen’s
pulled hamstring muscle still
was bothering him. the Dodgers
moved Jim Oilliam to third
base and played Dick Tracew
ski, a .226 hitter, at second.
* FIRST INNING
DODGERS Wills, who
fouled off Ford’s first pitch to
the screen behind home plate,
was called out on strikes
Kubek tossed out Oilliam. W.
Davis struck out.
YANKEES Kubek went
down swinging. Richardson
also struck out swinging. Tresh
• was called out on strikes.
SECOND INNING
DODGERS—T. Davis bounced
, out. Kubek to Pepitone. How
i ard smashed a 460-foot double
s that hit the left-centerfield 1
i wall on one bounce. Skowron
» bounced a single through the
middle, scoring Howard and
I putting the Dodgers in front,
5 1-0. Tracewski looped a single
1 to center. Skowron stopping at
second. Roseboro hit a home
. run into the upper deck in
■ rightfield close to the foul line,
i. scoring Skowron and Tracew
-5 See SERIES, Page A-6
He Tries to Please
—-AP Photo
that the Cosa Nostra name
Gaetano Lucchese is "Three
Fingers Brown” or "Tommy
Brown.”
Valachi is by no means a
reluctant witness. He's named
enough people to fill the
Roman Forum. It's just that
not everybody in the hear
ing room is sure who they
are or were.
Valachi wants to please,
but obviously trouble lies
ahead when he begins a sen
tence like this: "I went by
myself with a coupla fellas.”
Defeat of Civil Rights
Leaves Cambridge Split
Integration Rejected by 274 Votes,
But Resentment Continues Strong
By JOHN BARRON
Star Staff Writer
CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 2. ln perhaps the first popular
election in which an American town has been asked to vote
simply for or against racial desegregation, Cambridge has
voted against it.
White residents Jammed the polls yesterday to defeat a
city charter amendment which would have opened restaurants
to Negroes and possibly have)
ended the crises that have made
Cambridge a national symbol
of racial strife.
An unprecedented 80 per
cent of white registered voters
cast ballots and, despite official
warnings that they probably*
were choosing between racial;
integration and racial warfare,’
64 per cent of the whites who
voted rejected the amendments
It would have passed had a
comparable portion of Negroes'
voted and cast their ballots for
the amendment.
Negro Total Lags
But a boycott of the refer
endum had been proclaimed by
Mrs. Gloria Richardson. Negro
leader who originated the civil
rights movement here, and
Pentagon 'lnventories'
Race Policy Near Bases
By FRED 8. HOFFMAN
Atioeltttd Preu Staff Writer
The Defense Department has
ordered the armed services to
take an exhaustive "inventory"
of any racial discrimination in
transportation, education, pub
' lie accommodations, housing'
and other facets of life near
I military bases.
Assistant Secretary of De
! sense Norman Paul sent the
order for an “off-base equal
opportunity inventory” on Sep
tember 24. He set a November
8 deadline for replies from the
| services.
“The basic objective ... is
to obtain necessary informa
tion for the formulation of
future policy,” the Pentagon
said today.
It declined to make public
Mr. Paul’s memorandum to the
Valachi doesn't mind con
fessing his involvement in
multiple murders. He was
just never there when they
pulled the trigger. He was
always downstairs warming
up the motor of the getaway
car at the fatal moment.
And whenever Senator
Javits. Republican of New
York, tries to update his
rambling reminiscences. Va
lachi gets a little bit vague.
Os all the characters he
has mentioned, only one has
come through with any vivid-
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only 40 per cent of eligible
Negroes voted.
Official results were: 1.994
against the amendment, 1,720!
ijfor. Returns from the four
(White wards were: 1,962 against.
1,133 for. In the Negro ward,
they were: 587 for, 32 against.
While segregationists Jubi
lantly celebrated their indis
putable triumph, some of the
i moderates who had defied
threats and abuse to campaign
for the amendment openly
wept.
One business executive, a
long-time resident of the city,
called his company late last
, night to request a transfer.
I Others said they would talk to
I See CAMBRIDGE, Page A-6
services on grounds it is an
“official working paper."
However, the department did
furnish a copy of a three-page
inventory form to be filled out 1
by each base command.
The form listed 17 separate
major questions and topics Mr.
(Paul wants covered.
It was not said how base
commanders would collect the
material. Presumably, military
personnel will be sent out to
make on-the-spot checks in
communities surrounding the
bases.
This newest action in a series
of Pentagon moves aimed at
easing discrimination against |
Negro servicemen appeared
likely to meet strong criticism
from Southern members of
Congress.
The questionnaire delves,
among other things, into local
See SERVICE, Page A-6
ness. Perhaps it is because
he has only one name,
“Buster,” that “Buster” has
become an oasis in a desert
of confusion for Valachi's
avid but hopelessly muddled
listeners.
Os the legions he has men
tioned. "Buster” is the only
one who came through to
Valachi. Whenever he spoke
ot him it was with some
thing like fondness.
Buster, he recalled, was 6
feet tall, fair-complexioned,
22 years old and looked “col
legiate.” He carried his ma
chine gun in a violin case.
“Buster was always the
sharpshooter,” Valachi said
with a smile.
Buster was out of Chicago,
and he and Valachi under
stood each other. When he
told Buster not to shoot a
certain party if the elevaor
man waved at him, Buster
was a "nice boy” and didn’t
pull the trigger.
And Buster was a perfec
tionist. When he and Valachi
were after Joe Baker, whose
name on the police blotter
as James Catania, they
rented an apartment near
Baker's office. But Buster
wouldn't shoot from there
because it was too far and
Buster didn’t want to miss.
Buster also killed Peter Mo
rello. “The Clutching Hand ”
Buster, the fair-haired boy.
was not, however, long for
this world. He was killed in
a crap garfe in peacetime,
Mr. Valachi reported, with
real regret in his voice.
So far. Buster is the only
open-and-shut case thst Va
lachi has presented in his
long, indigestible song, which
he says is his "doom” and is
proving as much for his
audience.
10 Cents
Power Fight
Brings Death
T o Leaders
By MIRIAM OTTENBERG
and DAVID BRAATEN
Star Staff Writers
Mobster Joseph Valachi to
day told the Senate Investiga
tions Subcommittee how two
rival bosses of gangland were
murdered in an underworld
struggle for power.
He placed both murders at
the door of Vito Genovese, who
has been described as the reign
ing boss of the crime syndicate
even though he is in prison and
Charles (Lucky) Luciano, the
one-time king of the rackets
who died in ’’exile’' in Italy.
Valachi’s story was punctu
ated with accounts of a five
night banquet to raise money
for Cosa Nostra, of a gangster
who lost his nerve and died of
a broken heart and of his own
forebodings during a short pe
riod of uneasy underworld
peace.
A 1631 Feud
The time was 1931 in New
York. The feud for control
lay between the Italian mob
led by Ouiseppe Mazzaria and
the Sicilian group bossed. by
Salvatore Maranzano. They
were both killed.
In April, 1931, he said,
Genovese and Luciano, who
were in the Mazzaria group, let
it be known to the Maranzano
I group that they would get
Mazzaria themselves and end
the gang warfare which had
extended over 14 months.
At that time. Valachi told
the Senators, Mazzaria had
been living in such fear that -
even his own brother “had to
go through three or four doors
to get to him."
Valachi said it took five or
'six months for Genovese and
Luciano to carry out their
plans for murder. He said they
enticed Maszaria to a restafj
| rant in Coney Island wtjsre
| he was shot in the head -4x
i times.
The witness testified that
Giro Terranova, who accom
panied f Genovese and Luciano
and was supposed to drive; the
getaway car, was so shjky
I that they took the wheel dwgy
from him.
“Ever since then,” Valacfu
continued, “Ciro’s power
taken away. After a
died of a broken heart. He sort
of disgraced himself.” < •.
Valachi explained that' He
hadn't been in on the murder
but he learned of it from. tEe
“soldiers” of Gosa Nostra !*aa
we went along in life."
Still Unsolved
The Mazzana murder is.stfli
unsolved, but Sergt. Ralph
Salerno of the New York City
police told the subcommitjos
that in this case, as well as
others described by Valachi,
j investigations have been op
ened.
After the Mazzaria death,
Valachi said, there was peace.
The 14-month gang war had
cost the Maranzano group one
“soldier” —a Chicagoan who
Valachi understood Al Capone
got—but the war had cost the
Masseria group between 40
and 60 members.
Valachi testified that shortly
after Masseria's death, be
tween 400 and 500 members
of Cosa Nostra met in a big
hall in the Bronx. There; he
See CRIME. Page A-S
Kennedy Confers
With McNamara
President Kennedy today, re
ceived a first-hand report on
the Viet Nam military and
political situation from De
fense Secretary McNamara and
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor.
The two returned to Wash
ington about dawn from an
extensive inspection tour of the
Communist guerrilla - plagued
nation.
President Kennedy, after
conferring with the two de
fense leaders for an hour,
called a National Security
Council meeting for 5 p.m‘
Mr. McNamara and Gen. Tay
lor are to give the council a
briefing on their tour.
LOONEY? BUM?
NO, A REPORTER
THE RAMBLER tells obout his
own, very personal troubles in cov
ering the arrival of Emperor Haile
Selassie at Union Station yesterday
His account is on Page 0-1.