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oaee Somer «2 : fin 4” * STORY OF MURDER. INC: Bic oo t — ? INC: BiG BI organization widely known as Kefauver Revelations Disinter Sordid Murder Incorperatcd are again: . . . commanding public interest, this | Account of ‘Combinztion’ at Work timc as the result of hearinas held here by the HKefauver crime-in- vestigating cammitice. What fol | The activities of an underworld ; st ’ laws is a reconstriction of the | story of Murder Incorporated—iis | activity, its methods, its micmber-: | Ship—_based on what has been: licurned since its peak activity in’ ithe Nincteen Thirties, By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER | . Murder Incorporated was a pang of racketcers, with a sizable num- ber of professional murderers on its staff, which operated in the Nine- teen Thirties in Brocklyn, Its own ee members did not refer ta it by that; indelicate name: To the undcer-: world it was the Brooklyn chapter! of “The Combination,’ an infor- mally organized but strong con- 77, aker, [federation of criminals who staked isa't jout claims to various areas of the 9st |Uniled States. The late Bcniamin ue keiies Dipey Siegel ruled on The West A gd coast, the Purple Gang in Detroit, up a the remnants of the Capone fang : for |i Chicago and Charlés “Tacky” Astociated Press The New York ‘Limes vi, «fPuciano ygnd subsequently Louis Jue Adoni Albert Anastasia “Lepke’/Buchalter in New York. how Despite the Manu, nirder wast wersy Vnot the Brooklyn organize tirirs rhe principal trade. Its income was upon [derived from 4 multitude of rachk- y, “E lete-—liquor distribution through ~We Lhnmny corporations; gambhass! psyidicg Leal prosiiltution; niu ling il in on legitimate businesses; con rernity firel of labor unions; ownership of| ‘he Inightclubs and roadhouses, audi veh ae ghike- down extortion im ity jlife? (doris—some erud:, some refined, (hor. Murdgp “as anjy % means toward ifaciis fan end. It was used to discipline) the gang’s personnel, to elaninate | ‘ Mounpertion® and te disypcan ss 4 WSA Tetronblemakers’ -- that 38 we aah oid beter paterangs who Rue i - rm, “ a & . rl a TIMES, SUNDAY, APRIL 1, [951 SINESS IN CRIME state’s evidence and helped convict the professional killers. Among those executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing were! “Pittsburgh Phil’ Strauss, “rlap- py" Maione, “The Dasher” Abban- dando and “Bugsy” GoldsLein, Al- and more than fifty others were ‘sentenced to long prison terms, Unsolved Mystery Reles himself was Killed Nov, 12, 1941, when he plunged from the window of a hotel where he was being held in protective custody as a material witness. His death holds, perhaps, the key to 4 major mystery about “The Combination” that remains unsolved: Why haven't Anastasia and Adonis been convicted? Their connection with the pang wes never a secret to the police or to District Atlorneys, In his testimony before the Kefauver comniittee, Mr. O'Dwyer said Reles was the one Withcss whose testi- mony could have convicted. Anas- tasla of the myrder of Morris Dia- mond. As Mr. O'Dwyer put it, the state's case against went out the window with Teles. (|The Brooklyn District Attorney's together, eight nien were executed, Anastasia j D U LANGUAGES Berlitz SPS FOR LANGUAGES ft BD Be Bf call C1 6-O110 sursese NY @ Learn another Jangusge now! Gain Small classes, extra-rapid private lessons. —_ + & @ Cra, i | pay APPROVE: ; a co Be ea Saal Ve School « 630 FIFTH AVE. (at 50th St.) : Brooklyn 2: 66 Court St. Newark = LAY’ SCHOOLS ihe ht ele Morning, Afternoon and Eve: (Subject to sufficvent regis: Tegal Ati Tue Coreparat Busines: Corporate Twoom- da@rispees*’ The Proai Two mere , ) Atcounting for Lawsers J ‘ fwou setwicsler hei. | Accounting for Laws 16 Th+ Tita ot bieaty ep heats Federal Provedtisc—Tuo temester hours { Fedecal Invume Tass tion— Four atstester Rour- American Labor Botley lnffice has since been unable tou find; pany other witnesses whose testi-| ‘many could be waed successfully | ‘against Aiistio le Nor hag it bron fable to convict Adonis, who has jbeen indicted at various times on: icharges of kidnaping, extortion! tand assault, i ANAS eng Adonis are +lilli ut ulive, active and affluent. cunas-| pacer on AMET FERCATION | tasia, now 47 years old, was ex- — : | cused because of illness from testi- ifving at pubbeo hearings of the lielauver comm. tee, But in ani lappealanre teture nm closed hear- ling in Feliuary, he denied all the crimes Attributcd to him and said ne was a yeepectahle husiness mats rwith aodhet. faetece at binletou,! [its , Four scidestcr honrs MorlaJaw and Orraniiation= Pavree te owaies hours . Censtlict.: lntermatlonal law—Tho peut ep bce lems—~ . ' Pescriptioa of the ccurses will be te NEW YORK LAW: | 244 WILLIAM ST. NEW YOSK 7, HY. Bick East ot ELECTIVE and GRADUA’. = — ee