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the shafVALACHIthough ' the floorContinued from Page 1and his face was all but expressionless. He wore a gray flannel suit and a red-checked necktie, William Hundley, clxiel of the Justice Department’s organized crime section, was one of those j who escorted Valaehi to the hear-De Fi dropped elevator ical cor and injumg.Valaehi’s reddish brown close cropped hair was a surprise. He had been described as a man with iron gray hair. There was no explanation from the authorities. .Valaehi has been kept in hiding variously at the Army’s Ft. Monmouth in New Jersey, thepus Glial spofc cations There 3 to 5 Gulf th The •Monmouin m , .federal jail here and, reportedly, ^ ^the District of Columbia Reformatory at Lorton, Va.YucataMcClellan said the subcommittee expects it will take about three days of public bearings to receive the full inside story of Cosa Nostra affairs it expects Valaehi to expose.Valaehi is a hoodlum with a long record of arrests for robbery, extortion, burglary, giambling and narcotics. Tire record goes back as far as 1918.He agreed to testify against his former crime syndicate bosses because, he says, he learned they had mistakenly believed he was a stool pigeon and offered $100,-naissan area ag there lt;stormLoccWillThe Nueces can Ci noon t lationA £Thetx SllUUi pjgbVU CLliXA T—j IVTpi T;000 to anyone who killed him. He said he figured that if he was! to be slain lor talking to the police, he would take his revenge by exposing the mobsters while he could.Police believe any member of the syndicate could collect the bounty by killing Valaehi.But since the Capone era of tom-1 my guns spouting fire from speeding sedans, the mobsters have learned a little finesse. A New York police official reports the gang was thinking of employing public relations to repair the damage Valaehi may do to its public image.THE SENATE investigations subcommittee arranged today's » session to give its members a chance to appraise the story Valaehi Is expected to tell of brutal murder, crime tor profit and terrorism.Chairman McClellan, already las heard the story in two interviews with Valaehi.McClellan said he saw Valaehi Tuesday and that he appeared to be in good spirits and eager to testify as a means of revenge against syndicate leaders for having ordered him slain as a stoolpigeon.The subcommittee is exploring the affairs of a nationwide crime syndicate known to its members as La Cosa Nostra, and to others as the Mafia or Black Hand. Reputedly, a paper is burned in the hand of a new recruit to the secret criminal society' as he takes an oath of secrecy and vows to obey any order without question.1AHIV
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Corpus Christi Times
Corpus Christi, Texas, US
Thu, Sep 26, 1963
Page 6
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