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{ : H $ \Black Hand Gang ‘Said Organized On ‘A National Basis H NEW YORK UP)—A new alia ‘or black hand gang has organized on a national basis and since the war has spread a trail ‘of murder and wholesale drug j Peddling across the country from New York to California, Col. Garland H. Williams, district supervisor for the federa] 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- 3 can political worker in the home district of Rep. Vito Marcantonio. He said that the new Mafia is the 1946 version of the original Anlone Sicilano, the black hand of Sicilly. | COVER ENTIRE U. 8. “The American born sons of the old Mafia,” Williams said, “cover almost the entire United ' States, particularly the Florida i New York, New Jersey, Kansas, Nevada and California 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 oe _ had been traced to the Mafia. Williams cited one murder in 62 2837 BAO Chicago “where Carl Caramuse; was on hig way to church with; ‘ his family when he was killed by; men oT enree a shotgun blast from a passing i Pivot ave? car.” —y se SST eee in seen