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FD-350 (4-3-62) (Mount Clipping In Space Below) Undicate page, name of pewspaper, city and state.) cited War: Among wangs te § By Sandy Smith Sun-Times Correspondent "WASHINGTON — Gang- land's all-powerful “Commis- mission” settled a squabble be-. tween mobsters over control of . Charles (Sonny}—Liston. before ; he won the world’s heavyweight | championship, Justice Depart- ment officials said Tuesday. - _ Federal prosecutors told The -Times that an edict fr e Commission, the supreme yre co-managers of Liston. 4 |gnanagement of Liston i A spokesman for the Justict | while working on a Califo Aepariment emphasized tha’ -extortion case, it was disclosei. —_— e government has no evidench } a Right To Muscle In that Liston himself or Katz and! The California shakedown Nilon ever split purses with} scheme developed after the |§9 CHICAGO SUN TIME } gangsters, Commission granted Eastern CHICAGO, ILLINOI The burgeoning federal in-! mobsters the right to “muscle quiry into the Commission and | in” on purses of fighters on the rits secret society, La Cosa Nos- | West Coast, according to the tra, revealed how the 12 gang- 1 Justice Departneat, 8 | Date: 8-14-63 sters on the crime council acted| Both investigations, the gov- Edition: 5 STAR TURF in 1961 ps the vexing £0 J emment sources said, showed Author: SANDY SMITH ission of the underworld. | ithe way the Commission func- : iN 5 4 nied 3 96r med benweki |, Zhe power of the Commit | tions to settle the everlasting withe, JORN TREZEVA Chicago and Eevtemn anpsters {20D Over boxing was traced By | underworld wrangles over mon- * ver shares of Liston’s earnings. nen ; ° The hoodlums haggled ove | gation in a probe of Barone’s |{/° The Federal Bureau of the winnings of Liston when he : f-. Character: “was a heavyweight contender | gestation has revealed or under the management of Jo- ; mmission as the highett Classification: council of the crime brother- seph (Pep) Barone, of Phila- ° hood gangsters call La Cosa delphia, the government of- Submitting Office: ' CHICAGO ficials said. Nostra—“our cause.” ~ Sate wae Former Manager The Commission has the fin- Barone managed Liston from al say when hoodlums fall out 1958 to an of Prad ‘bhi t over which mob shall con- 7 4 ¥ le / a heen and Jack Nilon, of Chester, Pa., ' Soames desling | | fet = f racket, oe } ~ — —_— NOY ere aRDED 19] AUG 28 1963 “2 £6 28 1983 SiNT DIRECTOR Elis /L3 oe