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2-B Saturaay, Feb. 23. 1974 Philadelphia Inquirer FBI Links to'Black Matia Knowles is in critical condi Arrested tion ct Germantown Hospita! FBI agents said they had By Agents taken a knife from him. Testimony on the Starks' involvement with the Black In S. Phila. Mafia came at a bail hearing be.ore U.S. Magistrate Edwin By HARRY GOULD E. Naythons in U.S.District Inqutrer 3taft Wruter Court. An FBI agent testified te- Special agent Jeter testi- fied, despite strenuous objec- fore a U.S. magistrate Fri- tions from the Starks' attor- day that two South Philadel- neys, that Larry Starks was phia men arrested Thursday known to have "a position of in connection with an attercpt nization. to extort money from a Ger- mantown bar Jeter testified aiso that the owner are "BIsck Black Mafia had a pervasive | members of the "protective shakedown" oper- Mafia" narcotics and extor- ation, in which money is ex- 'tion ring. torted from black business- FBI special agent Melvin men in return for protection. Jeter'said that "reliable in- Thc FBI warrant charges formants" hac' linked Lary that Feo. ., the Starks de- Handcd the sco payment Starks, 2s, of the 100 block of from Rice brandisned S. I3th st., and his cousin, what aeud to Pc as a Clarence Starks, 22, of the handgun. Thc two lt.cdly 2000 block of Fitzwater st., toid Rice to hove t.. money with the crine syndicata. by 8:45 P.M., Feu. .i. The Starks were arrested Rice teleptoned tht FBI on Several agents werc waiting agents at Ncokie's Bar, e301 . for te Starks to Wister st., where the two al- I Mursday rizht. arrive legeuiy trsd tn cxtost s Ou'us es suope t Rice for "pruecti" 125 for Ciarence Starki. A third m.., .R.re L. K.arwlee.23f c) 3 bs