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t 4 z t } ' \Black Hand Gang ‘Said Organized On A Nationa Basis NEW YORK UP}_A new Mafi ‘or black hand gang has been “organized on a national basis and -since the war has spread a trail of murder and wholesale drug | peddling across the country from New York to California, Col. ‘Garland H. Williams, district supervisor for the federal] nar- , cotics bureau, disclosed today. Williams said the black hand activities were uncovered by the smashing of two huge, New York dope rings and the arrest of six east Harlem gangsters on infor- mation reaped from the investiga- tion of the murder of a Republi- c fais political worker in the home 4 distrit of Rep. Vito Marcantonio. He said that the new Mafia is 1 the 1946 version of the original 44Inione Sicilano, the black hand 3 of Sicilly, UNA ES weeris es TT re Ee Bae We 5. “The American born sons of & the old Mafia,” Williams said, “cover almost the entire United ‘ States, particularly the Florida New York, New Jersey, Kansas, Nevada and Calffornia areas, working in gambling and nar- cotics. ‘They sneer at the outworn methods of the old Mafia. Where the older black handers worked with bombs, the young Mafia re- ly on ‘connections,’ bribery and political corruption.” ~~ He said “numerous murders" on the Pacific coast and slayings in other sections of the country had been traced to the Mafia. Williams cited one murder in Chicago “where Car] Caramuse ; was on his way to church with: . Lee his family when he was killed by} et oe ‘a shotgun blast from a passing: ; ia car.” ee ch i cisseseemee —