European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes Woodiw toy july 34, 1963 Shotgun Bloss rip Hole in Well of silence 5 enough9 cries Italy to mafia violence by Bennet m. Bolton Rome a the grieving sicilian woman whose family was wiped out by mafia Vong Cinco finally raid Ansta the did. 29 a floss mafia member Are now accused to nine of 600 murder blamed on the mafia since Shotgun masts that took the lives of Signora Rosa Messina s husband and five sons ripped away the fear that and Long held her the first time in a Cen Tury and a half cracks Are be ginning to open in the solid Wall at silence that has shielded the mafia secret society from the Law. The Messina Case is typical of Many pressures that May eventually spell the doom of Sicily so called honorable word is out in the rugged Bill country around Palermo on Welly s Northwest out that the Gaddus Csc reel Cairo roosters begun one of the biggest Cuvar neat Nga of All time. This la mafia underworld Ian Foag meaning thai police patrols taken to the Inch in one of the neat determine drives Ever staged against the mafia. Why is there to much expectation that this time the mafia May be shaken to the ground when thousands of Benito mus Solini s troops could do nothing in a similar liberation Campaign almost 40 years got part of the answer is to be found in the Slaughter of seven policemen blown to bits june 30by a Booby trapped car. They were investigating a Sim Ilar time bomb blast that had killed two workmen the Day be far in � Palermo suburb. The deaths spotted Ike a Tom and triggered a base Pouoa run dip of suspected mafia Kun Komssi Witk a bagged w far. The blasts prodded the Parlia ment in Rome to move faster in special commission investigating the mafia and gave italian newspapers incentive to publish photos of wanted a floss and to writ article after article against the primitive mafia code of Protection. The mafia provide this Protection in Exchange for special with death and violence for those who get in the Way. Back out or talk. But the broader answer is seen in changing attitudes of the crowded Island at Italy s tip where Palermo is the mafia s Headquarters. The sicilians Are beginning to see the world outside. Television and the new Prosperity North Ward on the italian Mainland re showing them it is possible for people to live peaceful pro Isle lives without being forever tied to the web of fear extortion and murder. For years the people of Sicily under the Long tradition of mafia intrigue accepted their lot As a state of necessity cooperate with the mafia and live or Cross the mafia and the revulsion of All Italy fed up that such things As the nine Booby trap deaths could happen in modern times through Feudal system of mafia Law beyond the Law has trickled Down to the sicilian peasant a last people like Signora Messina Ore willing to break the code of Romerta silence or death and name names. The mafia was born of Desper ate need on Sicily. The Mediterranean Island has known at least 16 rulers in 2,000 years of history. The secret society was the sicilian s Way of protecting himself from the oppression of foreign a protective and Benefit society the mafia took care fits own and brought Donth to out inders. But the violent nature of the mafia s activities led to extortion blackmail Ransom and murder through vendetta the vengeance killing that Cut Down any or All in the family of the generations the sicilian looked to the mafia As his Hope for the future. It was the honorable society and for Many it always will be. No one opens a bar or a shoe store around pal Ermo without no Farmer s acreage prospers unless the mafia gives it approval. Forthe businessman that Means wetting the beak paying secret taxes to the mafia no prison or fortress is too Strong no foreign land too Dos unt for the mafia to catch up with those who break its rules. A socialist Deputy from Sicily explained in parliament As it mafia investigation began test fall that the mafia s private Laws Are no less effective than state he said that the one big difference was the mafia s distorted sense of Deputy said 113 persons from his Hometown alone had been slain by the mafia in the past 20 democratic Sutic cannot Tol Erate that any longer he said. The parliamentary investigation with every italian political party in support. Is developing a two pronged approach that might succeed where an 1873 government attempt to sump out the malt and where Mussolini s drive both plan is to draft emergency measures to Hunt Down that mafia itself. The other is a Long Range program to overcome that state of necessity by leveling the ground that allows the Moll Only 6 of 11 member Are Demetrou Law prevents party stacking of inc Washington a in directing the Sticky Railroad work rules dispute toward the inter state Commerce commission in president Kennedy is Call ing on an 11-Man Agency eight members of which Wen named by his Republican predecessor Dwight a Eisenhower. But the commission is protected by Law from being stacked to heavily in favor of the party in Power. No More than six of its11 members May belong to one party. The terms on this oldest of the Federal Independent Regula tory agencies Are seven years and the salary is about 121.000.mr. Eisenhower named four of the present democrats and four republicans in his eight years in office. To Date or. Kennedy has chosen two democrats and one Republican to keep the commis Sion at its Legal balance. The chairman is Democrat Lawrence k. Walrath of Florida a 53-year-old lawyer appointed by or. Eisenhower in 19s6. Wal Rath a native of Pennsylvania was a lawyer in Jacksonville from 1934 until his appointment the chairmanship of the inc rotates from year to year. Here Are glimpses of the other10 members Abe Mcgregor copy. S3, a re publican lawyer from Moscow Idaho named to the commis Sion by or. Eisenhower in 199& Golf represented Idaho Intlehouse in 1947-48 and ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1950. Kenneth h. Tuggle 59, a re publican lawyer from Barbour Volle by named to the inc by or. Else Shower in 1953. Former lieutenant governor of Kentucky Tuggle maintained a private Law practice in thai state from 1930to 1953. Clyde e. Herring 48, a democratic lawyer front on males i iwo who still is recuperating from a july 14 heart attack. Her ring son of a former Iowa governor and senator was chosen for the inc by or. Eisenhower in1959. John Bush. 53, democratic. Businessman from Portsmouth. Ohio whom or. Kennedy appointed to the commission i april 1961. He was state Purchas ing agent for Ohio from 1948 to1957. Chorea a. Webb. 46-Ycar-oldrepublican lawyer from Eagle Rock a. Or. Eisenhower named Webb to the inc in 1938. He was once legislative assistant to for Mer Ben. John Bricker Rohlo. William h. Tucker the com Mission s youngest member at 39, named by or. Kennedy in april1961. Tucker is a Democrat from Boston and he been practising Law since 1949. Paul j. Lerney 47, or. Ken Nedy s Only Republican appointee to Date. A lawyer from Northumberland a. He was appointed last year. Rupert u Murphy 53, a democratic lawyer chosen by or. Ettenhofer for the inc in 1959. A georgian he has represented several Cotton associations to his Atlanta Law practice. Howard Freas 83, a Republican who has had a Long career in the Public utilities Field or. Eisenhower named Freas to the inc in 1053. He served 25 years with the California Public utilities commission but is a native of Pennsylvania. Everett Hutchinson 48-yf? old democratic lawyer from Tex As who has been on the commis Sion since ids. To flourish poverty ignorance superstition through a flood. Of economic educational and so else Aid for the poorer Regoni mafia is also said to exist in the United states exported during the great wave of sicilian immigration at the turn of the Century and nurtured in Chicago St. Louls and new York in the 1920s. The hand la Tea american Gangland version waa known a said by one if Ite Arch foes to be connected with Hasi Cilian underworld. Charles Stragusa Back in Washington after Yean As chief . Narcotics agent in Italy testified at a congressional hear ". Ing two Yean ago that the Sicil Ian mafia has Strong ties in the United Law enforcement officials scoff at the idea however. For years they been watch ing 500 men deported to their native Sicily from the United states As undesirables or As 014. Gaily entered aliens and they say they never been Able to link them with the International dope and crime rackets. Bitter complaints by such exiled american hoodlums Al Loo Adonis Ralph log sort and Klate Charles Lucky Luda no about being Bird dogged an struggling to live May be Mora truth than smokescreen. In the Bike. Anti mafia Oft mat now growing in Italy to Aneicea of the crackdown Samy depend much on who prevails the Bow Messina Okonow Irful talk or the Angel k Barbera who wont. La Barbera 39, of Palermo wag chopped Down by ambush Era bul led on a Street in Milan two months ago. His brother had Dis appeared earlier in Palermo with Only his charred Luto Nobuo Ever found. Guns riddled a pal Ermo store owned by a la bar Bera relative. Yet when police investigator leaned close by the Milan Hospi Tal bed where la Barbera Lay critically wounded an their questions his answer always the same i know nothing. I Lus Orun Lonton col i Dowat p. Imit jr., us scientists to study Antarctic Icecap Ikimis o. Nank is nov s. Or Sam Washington Nana continued studies of the 5-mll-Hon-Equare-mlle Icecap covering the Antarctica will be a major project of american scientists inthe South Polar Region this win Ter the National science foundation which includes Antarctic studies among its activities has announced. Then will be extensive Drill ing of deep holes through the ice and observations of sound an Shock Waves passed through it. A major objective will be to de Termine if the vast ice Moss i growing or declining. Despite much recent research the world s largest ice mass five times the site of that cover ing Greenland la still a mys Tery. Measurements to Date indicated an average thickness of 700 feet although Depths As great Asl too feet ban Boe measured. At some tune in the part. The studies indicate the thai Voss averaged woo feat study of the Icecap which affects the weather of the whole world la considered of greatest importance not Only by the United Stales but by eight other nations now involved in Antarctic research. This ice Sheet says the foun Dation s report comprises about90 per rent of the ice on the Earth s land surface. It represents Between 1 and 2 per cent of the Earth s water which. I melted and returned to the seas would Rale sen Levels from 200 to 300 feet everywhere. Much of the land underlying the ice Sheet is below sea level due largely to the weight of thrice pressing Down of the Earth aur foce. With the Icecap removed West Antarctica would be an archipelago of scattered mountainous islands. The foundation s scientists also Are greatly concerned with ant Arctic weather. Antarctica says the foundation report May Well qualify As the Sto Miest a Well As the coldest place on Snow is so common that precipitation is difficult to mess ure. The accumulation in terms of water equivalent. Is believed to average about four inches year Over the entire the foundation presently maintains five permanent stations on the continent specific research facilities vary from station to station. These Are maintained throughout the years by Navy sailors who Are expansible forestation operation and resupply relieving the scientific personnel of most household the stations electric Power generators. Heat in the past has been provided by do excl powered Heaters but iome build Ings at the Large Mcmurdo sound station now electrical heat ing provided by a nuclear re actor. Seasonal Field Camps an Small temporary stations been established in Mountain areas for example in the High Ellsworth mountains where re search is conducted from october through february. More Remote parties will be supplied by air. Us cii4i activity new m. A cult it vol Tolk Illel. 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