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‘AT Luciano, a Mafia Icader whom people have failed to disassoci- SINATR A ASS ATLED the United States had deportedlate themselves fromr—aDout ee to Italy 3h 1946. Mr, Salerno 10,000 wrongdocrs who enjoy THNIG LEADER Said thai aif. oingitas puentia blending in with the 20 mil-- “ appearance with Luciano “wast. . AD i wath a million dollars in-ap-jlion so that when anyone points . . parent respectability for a no-/a finger at the wrongdcers Ne . torious criminal,” they're able to say, ‘You are Mafia Expert Notes Singer!" mtr. salerno retired a month unfairly “maligning 20 million .. * fago after 20 years in the Police}good Americans.'” _ Has Underworld Ties lye oartment, where he was con-| “There may be some basic Z ' * “sidered an expert on the affairsineed for the Italo-American ae . ‘jof the Mafia. He js now a con-|community to enhance its im- ' ‘By CHARLES GRUTZNEN [suitant to public and privatejage.” Mr. Salerno said, “but J ., A Nationally recognized au-|zroups concerned with law en-|feel the .best way to do this is thority on the Mafia criticized|forcement. to find some spokesmen whxc the leaders of the American] The former detective scrgeantjhave the stature and can com- Italian Anti-Defamation Lea-jsaid that because his parcntsjmand the respect of @ Roy Wil gue yesterday for their sclec-Jhad come from Italy he had|kins (Executive Director of the “tion of Frank Sinatra, the actor|strong opinions about how the)National Association for the wand singer, as national chair-|Italian - American community Advancement of Colored Peo- ‘man of a campaign to dis-|here should face the problem ofjple).” : “courage identification of gang-|Italians in organized crime. But] Mr. Sinatra is in Miami, ‘Blers in ethnic terms. he said he had not felt it ap-|making a new film ‘“Tony .. The critic, Ralph Salerno, who|propriate to voice his opinidns|Rome.” His public relations was formeriy with the Policejas a member of the Police/man, James Mahoney, said last ‘Department's Central Investi-]Dcpartment. - Inight that his elilent had no -gation Bureau, said that Mr.| “I think," he sald, “the Italo-|immediate comment on Mr. *Sinatra's friendship and gsso-|American community has been|Salcrno’s statements. Civil 'cidtion with identified members|following the ostrich principle/Court Judge Ross, J. DiLor- “of the Mafia “hardly matches/of putting its head in the sandjenzo, president of the Amer- the image the jeague is seck-jand hoping the problem will gojican-Ttalian Anti-Defamation ing to project as representative/away. League, was wnavajlable for of the 20 million Americans of| “These 20 million fine, decent{comment ——— “Italian birth ar ancestry.” ’ In an interview, he said ‘Mr, Sinatra had been “rather forthright in not trying to ‘Ride who his friends and asso- elates are.” He added: ‘ “Over a period of years Frank Sinatra has done things which make it a matter of public knowledge whom he chooses to be friendly with in Nevada, New Jersey, Brooklyn, Miami and Havana.” The Nevada Gaming Control Board revoked Mr. Sinatra's H- 4 wense to operate gambling 2; "The New York Times" os 1 ecause he ha allowed Sam (Momo) Giancana, May 12 ‘ 1967 a former convict and @ member Page 39 of the Mafia’s nation2z! com- mission, at the tables of his Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe, ‘ci Meeting With Laclans a s Although Gizncans Was on fhe control board's blacklist, Mr. Sinatra told Edward A. Olsen, the. board chairman, that he Would entertain Giancana or @nyone else he pleased, *Jhe Havana reference was fo. Mr. Sinatra's mecting the or: with Charits—(fucny)